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

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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. "

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

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" Pixar is not about computers, it's about people. "

" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "

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" Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. "

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

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" One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this. "

" I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. "

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" I try to make pictures I would want to see. "