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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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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
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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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The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
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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.
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At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
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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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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
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I try to make pictures I would want to see.
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The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'
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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
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I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
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Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.
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When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
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I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
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Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.
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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.
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If you think something's stupid, it probably is.
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I have motor oil running through my veins.
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What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.
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