Quotes About Pixar

Finding Nemo would, of course, become another huge Pixar hit, validating Ed Catmull's belief that it's better to fix problems than prevent errors.

To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.

One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody.

When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!

I have tremendous brand experience. What I do a lot for Disney is manage the great brands of this company, whether it's Disney, ESPN, ABC, Pixar, Marvel, 'Star Wars.' And I'm very engaged in technology and its impact on the consumer, either what experience you deliver for them or how to market and sell to them.

There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the West.

To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

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.

We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.

I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

I've never pitched a joke that I wouldn't be comfortable seeing in a Pixar film.

I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.

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

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

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

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.

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

Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.

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.