Lee Unkrich Quotes
People talk a lot about Pixar going off the rails. A lot of people are saying they aren't happy that we are making sequels. But for every one of those people, there is one that is happy because they fell in love with the worlds we created. We hope we've proved that a sequel can be every bit as enjoyable as the original.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
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I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.
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Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.
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I don't have a college degree.
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Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.
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People talk a lot about Pixar going off the rails. A lot of people are saying they aren't happy that we are making sequels. But for every one of those people, there is one that is happy because they fell in love with the worlds we created. We hope we've proved that a sequel can be every bit as enjoyable as the original.
