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" When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing. "
John Lasseter
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" If you think something's stupid, it probably is. "
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" I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio. "
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" I love working for a company full of geeks. "
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" My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that. "
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" In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need. "
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" 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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" I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you. "
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" Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about. "
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" 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. "
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" Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating. "
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" There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them. "
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" People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that. "
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" The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company. "
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" Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down. "
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" Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. "
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" I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool. "
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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 love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique. "
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" When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about. "
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