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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it
I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.
Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.
When you're afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.
At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.
I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.
I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.
With the finale episode of 'Gravity Falls' our job as storytellers is to finish all the things we've started.
It's a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.
Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
When I was 15 I did birdcalls on the David Letterman show, but I have since burned all video evidence of this.
One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I'm not on any particular kind of clock.
Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.
There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.