Lee Unkrich Quotes
For 'Toy Story 3' to be recognized by the Academy as not only one of the best animated films of the year, but also as one of the 10 best pictures of the year, is both humbling and overwhelming.
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
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I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
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I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.
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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
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What is more important in a library than anything else - is the fact that it exists.
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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For 'Toy Story 3' to be recognized by the Academy as not only one of the best animated films of the year, but also as one of the 10 best pictures of the year, is both humbling and overwhelming.
