Top 100 Quotes About Pixar
#1. Pixar makes movies that make sense for Pixar, and Disney makes movies that make sense for Disney, and they've each emerged in their own unique way.
John Kahrs
#2. When I was at Pixar, I was in my hole. I was an animator, I had my shots and I was like, "Yeah, I've gotta make this perfect!" It's a very selfish thing.
John Kahrs
#3. Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
John Lasseter
#4. Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
John Lasseter
#5. Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early in his career identified six. That felt like a nice, manageable number of guys to design and write for. It was anger, fear, sadness, disgust, joy and surprise.
Pete Docter
#6. Pixar has announced Larry the Cable Guy will be starring in Cars 3 thru 6. Howie Mandel will be playing his sidekick, Mopey the Moped.
Andy Kindler
#7. Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
John Lasseter
#8. Katherine Sarafian, a producer who's been at Pixar since Toy Story, tells me she prefers to envision triggering the process over trusting it - observing it to see where it's faltering, then slapping it around a bit to make sure it's awake.
Ed Catmull
#9. At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
Dan Scanlon
#10. I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
Andrew Stanton
#11. If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.
Randy Newman
#12. I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch 'Finding Nemo,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, okay, let's watch 'Nemo' again, for the seven billionth time!,' because they're amazing movies.
Zachary Levi
#13. Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'
John Lasseter
#14. Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?
Steve Jobs
#15. I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney
not replace Disney
but be the next Disney.
Steve Jobs
#16. One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody.
Gurinder Chadha
#17. I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.
Brad Bird
#18. studios down. (He also thought, frankly, that making us the stewards of both entities would guarantee that Pixar's traditions didn't get overtaken by those of the much larger corporation, the Walt Disney Company.)
Ed Catmull
#19. The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.
Andrew Stanton
#20. I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
Dan Scanlon
#21. Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.
Wesley Morris
#22. At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
John Lasseter
#23. Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
Steve Jobs
#24. The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
Dan Scanlon
#25. Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
John Lasseter
#26. 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
#27. When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
Larry The Cable Guy
#28. Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
Bill Plympton
#29. Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much ... ) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.
Eric Alterman
#30. Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
Michael Arndt
#31. 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
#32. at Pixar, Steve couldn't shape the culture. He wasn't the founder, and even as owner, he could not change the company to reflect his image and sensibilities. It already had a culture. It already had a leader. Its cohesive and collaborative team knew exactly what it wanted to do.
Brent Schlender
#33. In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
Tim Burton
#34. I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
Taron Egerton
#35. There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the West.
Shekhar Kapur
#36. That's not how most of Hollywood does it-which helps to explain why Pixar does so well. How are you changing the game in your field? What is your distinctive take on how your industry operates? Do you work as distinctively as you compete?
Bill Taylor
#37. At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
John Lasseter
#38. 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
#39. Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When we did "Toy Story," that was an all hands on deck situation that really was time intensive.
Pete Docter
#40. First, it created an electronic suggestion box where Pixar people could submit discussion topics they thought would help us become more innovative and more efficient. Immediately, topic ideas began flooding in, along with suggestions about how to run Notes Day itself.
Ed Catmull
#41. Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way.
Joe Grant
#42. We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.
John Lasseter
#43. Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.
Jodi Benson
#44. I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.
Bob Bergen
#45. Pixar started as a company that sold a special computer for doing digital animation; it took a while till they got into the moviemaking business. Similarly, Starbucks originally sold only coffee beans and coffee equipment; they hadn't planned to sell coffee by the cup.
Reid Hoffman
#46. Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star.
Roger Ebert
#47. Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
Andrew Stanton
#48. At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.
John Lasseter
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.
Brad Bird
#52. 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
#53. In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
John Lasseter
#54. I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
John Lasseter
#55. 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
#56. Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
John Lasseter
#57. I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.
Eric Weiner
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.
Andy Kindler
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.
Peter Travers
#73. 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
#74. At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.
John Lasseter
#75. I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
Dan Scanlon
#76. Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.
Joe Grant
#77. 'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.
John Lasseter
#78. I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.
Pete Docter
#79. 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
#80. I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.
Rob McClure
#81. In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.
Richard Corliss
#82. Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs
#83. 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
#84. I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.
John Lasseter
#85. Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
John Lasseter
#86. 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
#87. As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
John Goodman
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.
Robin Williams
#95. 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
#96. Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
Warren Spector
#97. 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
