Lee Unkrich Quotes
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I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.
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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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My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.
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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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'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.
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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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I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.
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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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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 was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated 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 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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The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
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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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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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Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.