Quotes About Animation

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

I grew up watching Pixar movies. And my favourite - if you don't count 'The Good Dinosaur' - is the first Pixar movie my older brother showed me. That would be 'Monsters, Inc.' I also like Disney - 'The Lion King' is probably my all-time favourite movie.

I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.

When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.

I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

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

I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.

I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.'

When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.

Pixar make kids' movies, but there are jokes in there for adults, and it never gets too sentimental.

I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long.

I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.