Lee Unkrich Quotes
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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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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It wasn't the first film to show a kind of alternate vision of suburbia, but it left an indelible impression, I think, on everybody, and all films like that will forever be measured against 'Blue Velvet.'
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I love Giuseppe Tornatore, the guy that did 'Cinema Paradiso.'
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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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It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.
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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 did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.
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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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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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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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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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It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.
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I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.
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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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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.