Lee Unkrich Quotes
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I just ended up focusing on film editing as I was getting my career started. I'm very passionate about editing and will continue to edit for the rest of my career, but it's not like that was all I did and then somehow I grew into directing a movie.
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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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I love Giuseppe Tornatore, the guy that did 'Cinema Paradiso.'
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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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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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I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.
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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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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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I love that people are still obsessively trying to understand and decode 'The Shining.' People want to find meaning in things that seemingly don't have meaning on the surface.
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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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Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack.
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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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'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.
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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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It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.
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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 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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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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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.