Scanlon Quotes

#1. Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant,

Diane Chamberlain

#2. I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

Dan Scanlon

#3. Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

Dan Scanlon

#4. I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

Dan Scanlon

#5. This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him - you kick him until he passes out - then beat him over the head with a baseball bat - then roll him up in an old rug - and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!

Michael Scanlon

#6. 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

#7. I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

Dan Scanlon

#8. I'm not really a horror movie fan.

Dan Scanlon

#9. This story is dedicated to all those who help, and all those who care.

James D. Scanlon

#10. I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

Dan Scanlon

#11. A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

Dan Scanlon

#12. The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.

Dan Scanlon

#13. I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.

Dan Scanlon

#14. Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

Michael Scanlon

#15. A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Dan Scanlon

#16. There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

Dan Scanlon

#17. You have to see this," he said.

For the rest of my life, the men I loved or would love - it was always this way: *You must read/see/listen to/ think about this*.

And I would. Read or watch or listen or think. It was one way of becoming the person I wanted to be.

Suzanne Scanlon

#18. I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

Dan Scanlon

#19. Sometimes we can make everything a little too perfect. I always was a fan of giving direction, but every now and then going, "I don't know. What do you think? Let's see what happens."

Dan Scanlon

#20. The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

Dan Scanlon

#21. The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees,

Michael Scanlon

#22. The universe has secrets just waiting to be unveiled.

Gerald W. Scanlon

#23. 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

#24. No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

Dan Scanlon

#25. That is the studliest thing I have ever seen.

Darren Star

#26. There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

Dan Scanlon

#27. I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Dan Scanlon

#28. I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

Dan Scanlon

#29. I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

Dan Scanlon

#30. I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

Dan Scanlon

#31. I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

Dan Scanlon

#32. I'm a big comedy fan, and a fan of films.

Dan Scanlon

#33. I tend to like dry humor.

Dan Scanlon

#34. There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible feeling.

Dan Scanlon

#35. 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