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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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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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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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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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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The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
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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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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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'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.
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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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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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Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack.
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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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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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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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It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.