Lee Unkrich Quotes
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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 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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The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
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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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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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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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Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.
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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 did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.
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I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.
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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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'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.