Lee Unkrich Quotes
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The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
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Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.
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Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.
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We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.
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The only reason we made 'Toy Story 2' is that we happened to come up with a storyline that was really good. It wasn't driven by wanting to make a sequel.
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For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their kids off to college, people getting out of college and heading off into the workforce. Those are major transitions.
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Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.
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I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.
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Initially, when people asked us when 'Toy Story 2' was going to come out, we'd say, 'We have no interest in sequels. We just want to do original stories.'
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'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.
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When we were making 'Toy Story,' my grandmother was very ill, and she knew she was not going to make it. I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I'd never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time.
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I don't like 3D movies that have things popping out of the screen. Firstly, I find it straining on my eyes, and more importantly, it distracts me from the movie.
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I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.
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With the first 'Toy Story,' we didn't know what the hell we were doing. We'd never made a movie before, so we went down a lot of blind alleys along the way. We went through seven different writers before we finally settled into our groove.
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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.
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We try our best every time to make engaging films that we're interested in, and we just hope the rest of the world likes them.
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If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.
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Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack.
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You can be stuck for two weeks on a problem, and then you get the right couple of people in a room, and in five minutes, you get a great answer.
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People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.