American - Director | August 8, 1967 -
We try our best every time to make engaging films that we're interested in, and we just hope the rest of the world likes them.
Lee Unkrich
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Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.
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The only reason we made 'Toy Story 2' is that we happened to come up with a storyline that was really good. It wasn't driven by wanting to make a sequel.
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Initially, when people asked us when 'Toy Story 2' was going to come out, we'd say, 'We have no interest in sequels. We just want to do original stories.'
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In the earliest days of Pixar, when we were making 'Toy Story' and 'A Bug's Life,' we all came together as a group.
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I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.
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I had worked for a lot of directors whose work I didn't respect, and as I was editing material, I was thinking about how I would have shot the scenes and what I would have done to make the scenes better. After several years of that, I got to the point that I was pretty confident I could sit in the director's chair.
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I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.
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I love Giuseppe Tornatore, the guy that did 'Cinema Paradiso.'
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Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.
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People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.
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With the first 'Toy Story,' we didn't know what the hell we were doing. We'd never made a movie before, so we went down a lot of blind alleys along the way. We went through seven different writers before we finally settled into our groove.
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