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" So much of the time spent on 'Zootopia' was inventing it. What does it look like? How does it work? "
Rich Moore
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" 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? "
Rich Moore
Story
Know
Karma
" The challenge is, how do you take someone who's supposed to be a villain and make that appealing and lovable? You have to empathize with him and put yourself in his shoes and root for him and want him to have the things he wants. "
Rich Moore
Shoes
Challenge
Yourself
" 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. "
Rich Moore
Place
Love
Audience
" I spent a lot of money and time at pizza places. Golf and Stuff in Ventura, right off the 101, was my hangout. Skating Plus, right behind it, always had a good selection of games. That was the place to be when you were from Oxnard back in the '80s. "
Rich Moore
Pizza
Money
Good
" 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?' "
Rich Moore
Life
Love
Struggle
" I love that fans feel comfortable enough to send us their artwork. "
Rich Moore
Feel
Enough
Comfortable
" I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day. "
Rich Moore
Beautiful
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" 'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation. "
Rich Moore
Think
Loved
Got
" I remember as a kid seeing Pong in a pizza place where I grew up in Oxnard, California, and having my mind blown by it. I thought it was a TV. I thought it was just something playing on a television. But then to be able to manipulate the paddle, and the ball with the knob was, in those days, pretty huge to a little kid! It was a simpler time. "
Rich Moore
Mind
Remember
Thought
" I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention. "
Rich Moore
Attention
Look
Audience
" You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to the most emotional part of their life, what they did when they were younger... I think I am going to be cursed with reliving 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' in my mind. And playing 'Dragon's Layer' when I enter Alzheimer's. "
Rich Moore
I Am
Hope
Think
" A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters. "
Rich Moore
Good Movie
Good
Like
" 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. "
Rich Moore
Video Games
Now
Culture
" 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. "
Rich Moore
People
Best
Good
" Between 'Futurama' and 'Simpsons,' I'm able to work with the voices of Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, and the cast of 'Star Trek.' It's great, you know; it's great to work with such talented people. "
Rich Moore
People
Great
Work
" The best games came from great characters. "
Rich Moore
Came
Best
Characters
" I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is. "
Rich Moore
Seed
Kind
Same
" People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are. "
Rich Moore
Like
Us
Sometimes
" 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. "
Rich Moore
Trying
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Early
" 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. "
Rich Moore
Story
Think
Cool
" I loved 'The Secret of NIMH.' When that came out, it felt like, 'Wow, this is something really, really new.' It looked like a Disney film, but it felt very cutting edge to me. To a twelve-year-old kid, it seemed very inspiring. "
Rich Moore
Edge
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Loved
" I think 'Wreck-It Ralph' can stand proudly in the pantheon of the great Disney animated films. It's a fairy tale disguised as something more contemporary. With its balance of heart and comedy, it is still very much rooted in the Disney legacy. "
Rich Moore
Great
Think
Legacy
" As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do. "
Rich Moore
Always
Strive
Good
" What we've done now sits with those films that inspired me as a kid, and I hope there is a kid like myself today who is watching 'Wreck-It Ralph,' and he or she is inspired the way I was inspired when I was 5 years old, and now they'll pursue this crazy dream. "
Rich Moore
Hope
Dream
Crazy
" Rather than just making a movie about video games, I wanted to start with the character and what the character was going through. "
Rich Moore
Character
Start
Video Games
" We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie. "
Rich Moore
Wall
Against
Sticks
" 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. "
Rich Moore
World
Myself
Cry
" 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. "
Rich Moore
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" I think when, like, things like 'The Wizard' and even like 'Tron,' when it first came out, I was a teenager, and, man, I really wanted to kind of just kind of disappear into it. "
Rich Moore
Kind
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First
" 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?' "
Rich Moore
Life
Character
Simple