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" Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child. "
John Lasseter
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" 'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story. "
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" I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers. "
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" Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. "
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" You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. "
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" I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you. "
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" People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. "
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" Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life. "
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" I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love. "
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" At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten. "
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" I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real. "
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" 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. "
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" Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important. "
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" 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! "
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" You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.' "
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" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "
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" I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. "
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" For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of. "
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" I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me. "
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" Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. "
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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. "
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" Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development. "
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