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" I'm a big Disneyland nut. "

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" The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. "

" 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.' "

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

" I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real. "

" I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster. "

" I have motor oil running through my veins. "

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

" As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas. "

" The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times. "

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

" I laugh very hard at work every day. "

" I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes. "

" True play is creativity. "

" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about. "

" The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view. "

" I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you. "

" Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing. "

Doing The Right Thing

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

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

" Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away. "