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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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" Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away. "

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" I believe God is in the details. "

" Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. "

" 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. "

" People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that. "

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

" 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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" 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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" I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. "

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

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

" Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. "

" A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences. "

" I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas. "

" 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. "

" Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. "

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

" 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. "

" Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation. "

" I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful. "

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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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" Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. "

" Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. "

" Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars. "

" When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held. "

" '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. "