Pixar Quotations

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

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.

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.

I started at Pixar the month Monsters Inc. came out.

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.

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.

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids films.

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

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.

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

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.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

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.

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.

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

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

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

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.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

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

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

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

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

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.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

Quality is the best business plan.

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

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.

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

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star.

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?