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I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
The look of 'Rebels' is based much more on the classic 'Star Wars' trilogy, where the 'The Clone Wars' was a prequel era series.
You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.
Gravity Falls' didn't just appear overnight - every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists.
If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.
To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.
I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.
I remember spending one summer being utterly obsessed with trying to get the legendary unreachable 'Ice Key' from 'Banjo-Kazooie.'
I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
When I made 'Voices of a Distant Star,' I wanted to make money from making that movie, of course, but that wasn't my major reason.
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who are way better than me.
There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
'Your Name''s success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates.
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.
I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.
When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.
You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.
With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.
Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.