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" I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself. "
John Lasseter
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" 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. "
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" Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. "
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" I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio. "
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" 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. "
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" I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time. "
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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. "
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Weekend
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" Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that. "
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Said
Always
Believe
" With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. "
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Time
Fail
" The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company. "
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Soul
Kind
Company
" 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. "
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Tell
You
Parent
" I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons. "
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Home
Loved
" The iPad changed my life! "
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My Life
Life
iPad
" I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. "
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Living
Never
You
" Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating. "
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Believable
Creating
" 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. "
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Baby
Film
Mother
" I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. "
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Nut
Manager
Car
" I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film. "
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First
Proud
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" I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful. "
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Film
Up
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" Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. "
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Play
Audience
Animation
" You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.' "
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Looking
Movies
You
" I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' "
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Why
Never
Fairy Tale
" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "
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Know
Been
Always
" I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers. "
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Disney
End
" When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons. "
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People
School
Book
" 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. "
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Story
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Confidence
" Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans. "
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Home
Sunday
Me
" I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique. "
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Love
Early
Design
" Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films. "
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Our
Start
Film
" 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. "
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