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" The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it. "

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" The hardest thing to do with an animated movie is to not make it feel synthetic: to feel like it's handmade, where you can sense the human hand in it. "

" I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme. "

" I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat. "

" Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart. "

" It was kind of fun to make 'Cloudy,' which has such a stylized look, and then do 'LEGO,' which, while it's stylized, is also photo-real. "

" In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise. "

" We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe. "

" 'Zorn' goes to some pretty ridiculous places, but the real comedy is coming from these little observations about life that are not as outlandish as some of the bigger moves in the story. This is a guy who has magical relics and fights weird monsters and is also dealing with very basic work and family things. "

" That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it. "

" You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn. "

" I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically. "

" Seriously, if 'Superbad' doesn't happen, I don't think 'Jump Street' ever happens. "

" It's easy to forget that when you take out all the shark stuff, 'Jaws' is a really beautiful human drama. "

" That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.' "

" We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on paper, you might even avoid writing down a name, let alone if they have blonde hair or this or that, to stop. "

" I think we're going to be very embarrassed in a few years when we see a lot more women film-makers. People will look back and ask, 'How did it take so long for you to figure this out?' "

" A sense of humour is never a handicap. "

" Male relationships are deeply emotional and hard to talk about. "

" Having to top yourself is a good problem to have. "

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" I don't want to fail by being conservative; I want to fail by doing something no one has ever done. "

" I apologize for the song 'Everything Is Awesome.' "

" You can't play not to lose. You kind of have to put your ego aside and accept the fact that careers are long, and there's gonna be stuff people like and stuff that people don't like, and you try to get better every time, and always put something out that you're proud of. And let the chips fall where they may. "

" We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film. "

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" There have been funny sequels, but I don't know if there have been that many that feel like they're - you know - they're just as great a movie to watch, just as fun an experience but different. "