Quotes About Pixar

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Brad Bird

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Michael Arndt

“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

“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

“I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.”

— Dan Scanlon

“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

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

— Warren Spector

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

— John Goodman

“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

“I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be it horror or action or adventure or drama or whatever, and we're trying to do that as well. Every film that you go see from Pixar, we're hoping is a little bit of a surprise.”

— Pete Docter

“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

“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

“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

“The very first thing I saw at this year's Telluride Film Festival was sheer bliss. "Lava," a musical romance from Pixar Animation, was one of the shorts that traditionally precede almost every festival screening; the director was James Ford Murphy. The story, spanning millions of years in 7 minutes, starts with a lonely Hawaiian volcano who, crooning to ukulele accompaniment, yearns for "someone to lava.”

— Anonymous.

“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

“Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.”

— John Lasseter

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

— John Lasseter

“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

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

— John Lasseter

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

— John Lasseter

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

— John Lasseter

“'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.”

— John Lasseter

“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

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

— John Lasseter

“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

“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

“At the casting sessions it was all boys and though I wasn't exactly bored I didn't need to be there, and songs constantly floating in the car keep commenting on everything neutral encased within the windshield's frame ( ... one time you were blowing young ruffians ... sung over the digital billboard on Sunset advertising the new Pixar movie) and the fear builds into a muted fury and then has no choice but to melt away into a simple and addictive sadness.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“What makes Disney movies and Pixar movies always so good, hey take time and they're constantly honing, and tweaking, and rejiggering things, and taking influences from every cog, including myself, that can help. Any place where there can be inspiration. They make every moment very layered and very rich.”

— Sarah Silverman

“I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.”

— Bob Bergen

“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

“We [film supervisors] always try to encourage discussion in the room because a lot of times newer animators who are just out of school or people come from other studios, they're gonna have different points of view and we want to make sure we're vetting all the ideas to get the best ones. A lot of people are shy about speaking up if this is their first time at Pixar or if they don't have a lot of experience, so we try to encourage that.”

— Victor Navone

“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

“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

“Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star.”

— Roger Ebert

“This is a world that's big enough for everyone. I like that message in that comes out of John Lasseter, and it comes out Pixar, it comes out of the Apple, Google, the Ben and Jerry's thing. These are American companies that send that message around that is good, that is healthy. And everyone goes, "That's the America I always believed in before Watergate."”

— Eddie Izzard

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

— Andy Kindler

“Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.”

— Steve Jobs

“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

“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

“The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy, real-world. Every plot line is not just plausible, but oddly authentic. The stories are full of adventure, humor and love. The characters are written with great human dimension. I don't know how they do it but they astound me.”

— Tom Hanks

“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