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

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" 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. "

" Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that. "

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

" I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me. "

" 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. "

" I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? "

" At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable. "

" My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad. "

" I believe God is in the details. "

" Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice. "

" I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D! "

" I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique. "

" 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!' "

" Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. "

" Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films. "

" 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. "

" Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.' "

" At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original. "

" 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. "

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

" I love working for a company full of geeks. "

" 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. "

" Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director. "

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

" I have motor oil running through my veins. "

" Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art. "

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

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