Quotes by Chris Meledandri - Page 1

Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.
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Grown-Ups
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Absolutely, you rise and fall based on your creative team.
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Creative
Fall
Absolutely
Rise
Based
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Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.
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Owning
Pets
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My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.
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Following
Great Idea
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I don't fly by the seat of my pants. I set strategies, and then I pursue those in unrelenting fashion.
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Pants
Pursue
Unrelenting
Seat
Strategies
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Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time.
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Amount
Tremendous
Convey
Period
Short
Relatively
Short Period
Tremendous Amount
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You have to love Dr. Seuss to take on the responsibility of conveying his work in animation or any medium.
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Animation
Conveying
Dr
Medium
To Love
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My faith in my filmmaking changed on the heels of 'Titan.' It allowed me to pursue things that I previously would have questioned.
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Changed
Filmmaking
Heels
Pursue
Allowed
Questioned
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If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.
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Core
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I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.
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Childhood
Influence
Authors
Dr
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There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.
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Deadline
Served
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What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.
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Competing
Eyeballs
Granted
Members
Audience Members
Forms
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I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.
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Bonding
Vessel
Carries
Believe I Believe Character
Component
Expressing
Character Believe People
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A favorite film? The first 'Ice Age' and the first 'Despicable Me.' They're the films that have introduced me to characters that I still feel extremely bonded with.
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Despicable
Ice
Ice Age
Age Me Feel
Bonded
Favorite
Characters
Extremely
Films
Introduced
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I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.
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Multiple
Periods
Enduring
Expressions
Important Role
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I was pulled out of school for every moratorium day and every rally for a left-wing candidate... from Ed Koch in his heyday to Eugene McCarthy. That's the culture that I came from.
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Heyday
Left Wing
Candidate
Mccarthy
Moratorium
Pulled
Rally
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If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.
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Discovery
Taking Risks
Breaking
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My experience is that there's absolutely a correlation between the enthusiasm within an animation studio for a given character and the enthusiasm the audience feels when seeing the movie.
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Correlation
Enthusiasm
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The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste.
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Animated
Waste
World Class
Deploy
Gather
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When we moved from 'Ice Age' to 'Ice Age 2,' we were really stuck; a story didn't just organically emerge. While I'm very proud of 'Ice Age 2,' from a storytelling sense, it's a very thin story.
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Ice
Ice Age
Stuck
Emerge
Organically
Thin
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Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.
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Meaningful
Parent
Work Experience People
Dr
Revisiting
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In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form.
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Common Language
Multiple
Visual
Art Work Start
Art Form
Beautifully
Blends
Spoken
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I have to understand how we are going to market the movie. We view marketing as an extension of content creation... Every time a consumer sees our movie, in whatever form, our obligation is to entertain the audience.
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Creation
Marketing
Obligation
Consumer
Entertain
Extension
Sees
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Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.
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Driving Force
Embrace
Illumination
Surprise
Unexpected
Designed
Expectation
Preserve
Subvert
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This phenomenon with Betty White is so wonderfully amazing. In a world where ageism runs rampant, out of left field, all of a sudden, the country decides to celebrate Betty White, and she becomes cool at 90. That's remarkable.
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Ageism
Celebrate
Left Field
Phenomenon
Remarkable
Betty
Rampant
Runs
Sudden
Wonderfully
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Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are graduating, you have to figure some of our children are getting a greater equalizer than others.
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Equalizer
Low Income
Graduating
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I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.
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Despicable
Ice
Ice Age
Redefining
Rejected
Visual
Disparate
Save
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I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.
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Charm
Collaborators
Ice
Ice Age
Choosing
Execute
Importantly
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Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in 'The Lorax' go beyond a love of trees. It's also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That's what makes it a timeless tale.
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Clear
Greed
Personal Responsibility
Redemption
Responsibility
Timeless
Beyond
Dangers
Statement
Tale
Ted
Themes
Trees
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I do think we're in a period of time culturally where there is just this extraordinary connection that we have to our pets, and in many ways, they are displacing kids. They're so much simpler than dealing with a kid because of this unconditional love that does not get complicated by adolescence or any other manipulation.
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Unconditional Love
Adolescence
Complicated
Extraordinary
Manipulation
Unconditional
Connection
Dealing
Period
Pets
Simpler
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In the 1960s, my father chose to introduce Italian-style clothing into a world that was filled with boxy Brooks Brothers suits. So if you were dressing in his clothes in New York or California, you were breaking a rule. And my mother, Risha, who is still living, has always been an activist. I don't think my mom has met a cause she doesn't like.
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Activist
Brooks
Filled
Mom Mother Always
Breaking
Chose
Clothing
Dressing
Introduce
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