Lee Unkrich Quotes
When we made 'Toy Story,' we knew, even back then, that this was going to be the ugliest film we would ever produce.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
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The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.
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Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
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I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.
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Civilization is measured in no small part by these standards. The famous beauty and symmetry of the Greek race in its prime was due in no small part to their general participation in athletic games. This meant development.
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If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
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The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's to have a strong national defense, it's to protect private property rights and it's to support American values. That's what the mission statement is. There's nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.
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You never know about life.
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When we made 'Toy Story,' we knew, even back then, that this was going to be the ugliest film we would ever produce.
