Lee Unkrich Quotes
Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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Say yes to everything.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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These are not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.
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The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
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Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
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The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say "Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering" - come on. For us, even in the rotten ones, we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
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Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.
