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" Judy Hopps truly believes in something. We're not just giving her the run of the story, where we give her everything. Through her actions, she has to prove what she believes in. Personally speaking, I think that's cool. "

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" I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant. "

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" I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: 'What's the meaning of life? What if I don't like this job I've been programmed to do?' "

" I always thought that Mario was kind of the bad guy - because if you knew about the game, there was supposed to be a back story where Mario was teasing the ape, and the ape stole his girlfriend, and this was kind of karma for Mario, you know? "

" I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is. "

" I'm really excited that the studio is trying, because when I began my career in the early '90s, late '80s, Disney was not something - though I respected it and liked what they were doing in those years - it's not like I thought I wanted to be a part of that studio right now. "

" Being able to make a comedy at Disney was really appealing. "

" Disney is a place that I've always rooted for, and I think the audience does also because we have a deep, deep love for what that means. "

" I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day. "

" I'm part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA. "

" We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance. "

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" It feels like there's something for everyone in video games. It's not just a toy for a certain age group. It's steeped in the culture now. "

" There was a moment with 'Zootopia' where we said, 'This is the experiment: let's try Judy in the role of the protagonist. Let her character introduce us to the city and this world.' And suddenly, all that struggling and trying to make traction into this story was done. "

" I like when entertainment not only makes me laugh or cry or thrills me, but makes the world a little clearer - and makes myself a little clearer. "

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" You put as much effort as you can when they're young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they're older now, my kids. I'm at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there. "

" We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie. "

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" Rather than just making a movie about video games, I wanted to start with the character and what the character was going through. "

" I love the idea of a very simple 8-bit video game character struggling with the complex question: 'isn't there more to life than the role I've been assigned?' "

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" For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?' "

" It was never someplace that I said, 'In my career, I must work at Disney.' "