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" I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome. "

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" It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear. "

" There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. "

" 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 would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time. "

" Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. "

" I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator. "

" I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you. "

" In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want. "

" I love bringing the inanimate object to life. "

" I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. "

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

" I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role. "

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

" Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating. "

" When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect. "

" People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. "

" Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important. "

" I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers. "

" 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. "

" 'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then. "

" If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story. "

" 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. "

" Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. "

" I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio. "

" The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.' "

" When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing. "

" 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 never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' "

" I laugh very hard at work every day. "

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