Lee Unkrich Quotes
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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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Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.
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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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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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'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated 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.