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" We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out. "

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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. "

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" Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. "

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" 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. "

" For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of. "

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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. "

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

" 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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" In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney. "

" 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. "

" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "

" There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. "

" Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees. "

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

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

" In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want. "

" When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!' "

" I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio. "

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

" 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 think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes. "

" Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child. "