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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'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself. "

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

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" I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. "

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" 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!' "

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

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