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" I think the best movie ever made was 'Dumbo.' "

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" Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development. "

" At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard. "

" I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. "

" In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family. "

" When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids. "

" I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure. "

" I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives. "

" The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.' "

" At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work. "

" I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did. "

" Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars. "

" Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them. "

" When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills. "

" Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees. "

" My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. "

" Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it. "

" I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter. "

" I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool. "

" Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. "

" If you think something's stupid, it probably is. "

" Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else. "

" Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. "

" When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!' "

" Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. "

" My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. "

" You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. "

" If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is. "

" People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that. "

" Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that. "

" I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. "