Pixar Up Quotes

#1. Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.

John Lasseter

#2. Had the rights to make all the sequels and exploit the characters. I made a presentation that said, here's the 15% of Pixar that Disney does not already own. So that's

Walter Isaacson

#3. We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Blue Sky to make a feature. But nobody is interested in a film that cost $50 to 60 million with the potential to do $120 million. They want to risk big money to make huge money.

Henry Selick

#4. Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

Warren Spector

#5. Pixar's Ed Catmull likes to say that since you can't control the luck itself, which is bound to come your way for better and for worse, what matters is your state of preparedness to deal with it.

Brent Schlender

#6. There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.

Henry Selick

#7. I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

Robin Williams

#8. 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.

John Lasseter

#9. Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

Warren Spector

#10. 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.

John Lasseter

#11. One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

Nick Offerman

#12. Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

Andrew Stanton

#13. Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

Brad Bird

#14. As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

John Goodman

#15. It'll be a day in which you tell us how to make Pixar better," John said. "We'll do no work that day. No visitors will be allowed. Everyone must attend.

Ed Catmull

#16. The man persisted. "No, no, no. It was so funny. What software did you use? - apparently in the belief that the software had built-in humor generation.

David A. Price

#17. Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

John Lasseter

#18. I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.

John Lasseter

#19. Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

John Lasseter

#20. Now that had worked very successfully at Pixar, and he ended up adding one at Walt Disney Animation and one at DTS. So, I'm part of that Brain Trust where I sit in on all things creative for the whole studio, but especially in the Planes area.

Klay Hall

#21. Each one of the films get built up and strengthened and reinforced, and we're not afraid to rip stuff out and redo it until we feel it's worthy of the 'Pixar' name.

Pete Docter

#22. At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

John Lasseter

#23. Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

John Lasseter

#24. The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Andrew Stanton

#25. Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

Peter Travers

#26. At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

John Lasseter

#27. I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.'

Michael Keaton

#28. I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.

Bill Plympton

#29. The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.

Andy Kindler

#30. I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.

John Lasseter

#31. It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

Dane Cook

#32. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why Pixar's goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Lee Unkrich

#33. But the world of Despicable Me is such a cartoony world. It is much more Looney Tunes than I would say the Pixar world or those movies. We can get away with a little more, although I know some people responded negatively to the Iron Maiden beat in the first movie where it looks like Edith.

Cinco Paul

#34. People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

Dan Scanlon

#35. If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

Steve Jobs

#36. I keep thinking about all the time away from my family this will cause, and the time away from the other family at Pixar," Jobs said. "But the only reason I want to do it is that the world will be a better place with Apple in it.

Walter Isaacson

#37. Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.

John Lasseter

#38. The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

Steve Jobs

#39. I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

Andrew Stanton

#40. I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.

Bill Plympton

#41. I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.

Quvenzhane Wallis

#42. Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

John Lasseter

#43. What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.

John Lasseter

#44. I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

John Lasseter