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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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" 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. "

John Lasseter

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

" 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. "

" I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995. "

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

" 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. "

" When you're a director, you really live whatever you do. "

" Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology. "

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

" 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. "

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" You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. "

" 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. "

" With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. "

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

" What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it. "

" I laugh very hard at work every day. "

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

" We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films. "

" I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. "

" I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked. "

" I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome. "

" We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story. "

" 'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar. "

" 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? "

" 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. "