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" When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills. "

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" When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives. "

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

" At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work. "

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

" 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. "

" My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad. "

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

" 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. "

" Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.' "

" One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked. "

" The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.' "

" I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure. "

" Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down. "

" I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me. "

" When you're a director, you really live whatever you do. "

" You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. "

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

" With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. "

" Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans. "

" I laugh very hard at work every day. "

" I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique. "

" 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. "

" Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about. "