Pixar Quotes

• Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Apples, Creative

  Fortune, February 21, 2005.

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• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Food, Artist, Ego

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

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• I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

  Walt Disney

  Bad Day, Past, Looks

  "Fictional character: Edna Mode". "The Incredibles", 2004.

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• Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.

  Joe Grant

  Four, Want, Projects

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• Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

  Brad Bird

  Yeah, Employed, Stills

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

  Brad Bird

  Thinking, Next, Projects

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

  John Lasseter

  Movie, Trust No One, Actors

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• As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

  John Goodman

  Guy, Monsters, Sequels

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• Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

  Wesley Morris

  Action, Film, Action Films

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• Quality is the best business plan.

  John Lasseter

  Quality Not Quantity, Best Business, Quantity And Quality

  Amid Amidi, John Lasseter (2009). “The Art of Pixar Short Films”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, Doubt, Cost

  Fortune, September 18, 1995.

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• I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids’ films...

  Taron Egerton

  Kids, Film, Stills

  Interview with Modesta Dziautaite, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2014.

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• I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

  Robin Williams

  Games, Play, Long

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.

  Andrew Stanton

  Nice, Thinking, Problem

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• Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When we did "Toy Story," that was an all hands on deck situation that really was time intensive.

  Pete Docter

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

  Andrew Stanton

  Mean, Thinking, Filmmaker

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• Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

  Andrew Stanton

  People, Criticism, Way

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• The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.

  A. O. Scott

  Fun, Taken, Thinking

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• If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.

  Randy Newman

  Kids, Years, Worry

  "'I'm Dreaming of a White President': Randy Newman on His New Song". Interview with Ben Yagoda, www.slate.com. September 18, 2012.

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• If you deconstruct the movies that have done well, Pixar-type movies that do incredibly well and make hundreds of millions of dollars, they have a strain of decency and conservatism that maybe even their filmmakers don't even recognize. Yet, we cross our fingers that by mistake, liberal filmmakers and liberal producers are going to by mistake make conservative movies. We have to become invested in it, or else we have no excuse to complain.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Mistake, Complaining, Dollars

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early in his career identified six. That felt like a nice, manageable number of guys to design and write for. It was anger, fear, sadness, disgust, joy and surprise.

  Pete Docter

  Nice, Sadness, Writing

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 3, 2015.

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• I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a passionate fan, be it Star Wars, be it the entire Marvel catalog, be it the DC catalog, or the original thinking at Pixar. I'm a fan first, so I'm always curious to see the way people express themselves and how it's being done.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Stars, War, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• After the song [for sausage Party] was finally done, we didn't have enough time, but we thought it would be fun. It also would've thrown it off a bit, because we really are doing more of an homage to Pixar, and if we filled it with songs, it would've felt more like Disney. And we had an experience, while we were making it, that going too Disney made it too weird.

  Evan Goldberg

  Song, Fun, Party

  Source: munchies.vice.com

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• A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.

  Eric Weiner

  Successful, Symphony, Levels

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

  Andrew Stanton

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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