American - Director | August 8, 1967 -
I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.
Lee Unkrich
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If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.
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I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'
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I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.
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I never wanted 'Toy Story 3' to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.
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I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they're in a cinema and can get lost in the story. Things popping out of the screen call attention to the artifice of what you're doing, so I use 3D as more of a window into a world behind the screen.
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Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
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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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When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.
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How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life.
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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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My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.
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