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" The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. "

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" You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey. "

" I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do. "

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" I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' "

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

" I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s. "

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" 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. "

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

" I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. "

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

" The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.' "

" I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D! "

" 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. "

" When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing. "

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" 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. "

" When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart. "

" I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me. "

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" Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else. "

" I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did. "

" I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster. "

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