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

  Wesley Morris

  Action, Film, Action Films

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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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• 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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• Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

  John Lasseter

  Creating, World, Film

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• Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Long, Looks

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• I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

  Andrew Stanton

  Computer, Touched

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2008.

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• This is a world that's big enough for everyone. I like that message in that comes out of John Lasseter, and it comes out Pixar, it comes out of the Apple, Google, the Ben and Jerry's thing. These are American companies that send that message around that is good, that is healthy. And everyone goes, "That's the America I always believed in before Watergate."

  Eddie Izzard

  Apples, America, Healthy

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• We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

  Lee Unkrich

  Goal, Essentials, Screw Ups

  "Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built 'Toy Story 3'" by Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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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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• I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Trying, Care

  "The Biggest Secret to Life (and Work)" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2017.

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• I started at Pixar the month Monsters Inc. came out.

  Dan Scanlon

  Monsters, Months

  "'Monsters University' Director Dan Scanlon on the Making of a Monstrous Pixar Prequel". Interview with Philip Yu, yahoo.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Want, Retiring

  As quoted in Fortune, February 23, 2004.

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• At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

  John Lasseter

  Meetings

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• Now that had worked very successfully at Pixar, and he ended up adding one at Walt Disney Animation and one at DTS. So, I'm part of that Brain Trust where I sit in on all things creative for the whole studio, but especially in the Planes area.

  Klay Hall

  Disney Animation, Creative, Brain

  Source: collider.com

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• But the world of Despicable Me is such a cartoony world. It is much more Looney Tunes than I would say the Pixar world or those movies. We can get away with a little more, although I know some people responded negatively to the Iron Maiden beat in the first movie where it looks like Edith.

  Cinco Paul

  Iron, People, Tunes

  Source: collider.com

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• My first jobs were at Pixar and John Lasseter just doing animation would always allow actors to do that, and then animate to that. It was an early lesson for me that, if you're lucky enough, as I've been in my career thus far, to get really incredible iconic people to do your stuff, you want them to tell your story and you want them to be on page in the important moments, and they usually are.

  Dan Fogelman

  Jobs, Careers, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.

  David Copperfield

  Book, Years, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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