American - Director | August 8, 1967 -
Every one of us at Pixar is worried that we're going to be the one to make the dud.
Lee Unkrich
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After we finished 'Toy Story 2,' we talked about going right into making 'Toy Story 3,' because we had an idea that we thought had some promise. But there were a bunch of boring contractual problems going on between Disney and Pixar at the time that kept us from making the movie.
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Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.
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I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.
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I looked long and hard at third films in series to see if there were any good ones that I could learn from. And there weren't any that hadn't just gone off the train tracks by their third film. Until, that is, I got to the third 'Lord of the Rings' film.
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It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.
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Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack.
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It's an incredible honor to be nominated by the Academy.
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For 'Toy Story 3' to be recognized by the Academy as not only one of the best animated films of the year, but also as one of the 10 best pictures of the year, is both humbling and overwhelming.
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The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
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If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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