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John Lasseter: When I was in high school, it dawned on me: People make cartoons for a living. They actually get paid to make cartoons. That's what I wanna do!
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[first lines]
Narrator: For the last 20 years, a group of artists and scientists have transformed two-dimensional drawings into their own three-dimensional worlds.
[clips from various movies]
Thomas Porter: Art challenges technology. Technology inspires art.
John Lasseter: The best scientists and engineers are just as creative as the best storytellers.
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Tim Allen: [about his Buzz Lightyear character] I had no idea, visually, what this would look like. He let me stretch it a little bit, and really make it this really - kind of a closed-head injury kind of a guy.
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Steve Jobs: [about Pixar's growing pains] Our business depends upon collaboration. And it depends upon unplanned collaboration.
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Billy Crystal: These people think differently than normal people. They're strange - in the best way.
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Billy Crystal: These people think think differently than normal people. They're strange - in the best way.
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Steve Jobs: There is a classic thing in business which is, "The Second Product Syndrome" if you will. And that is: companies that have a really successful first product, but they don't quite understand why that product was so successful. And their ambitions grow and they get much more grandiose and their second product fails. Believe or not Apple was one of those companies. The "Apple II", Apple's first real product in the marketplace was incredibly successful, and the "Apple III" was a dud. And so I've lived through that and I've seen a lot of companies not make it through that.
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Tom Hanks: They said, "Look, we just wanna show you this thing, 'cause it's too hard to explain what it is."
Woody: [Woody Track From Turner And Hooch] Oh, no, no, no! You're eating the car! Don't eat the car! Not the car! Oh, you stupid dog!
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Walt Disney: [archive recording] When planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget, and that maybe our pictures can help recall.
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[last lines]
Tom Hanks: I feel like I'm in Dumbo, I feel like I'm in Pinocchio. This is truly going to be timeless and forever and will always land in the consciousness of yet another generation of moviegoers.
Steve Jobs: Pixar's seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
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Brad Bird: Now that I've made a Pixar film, a lot of people have asked, "What is the secret formula?" As if there's some magical calculation. And I say, "It's really pretty simple, everyone here loves films. And they just wanna make something that they themselves wanna see."
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Brad Bird: Any company that had four hits in a row would not be open to changing anything. This place was the exact opposite. They were saying, "'Look, we've had four hits in a row. We are in danger of repeating ourselves, or of getting too satisfied and we need to shake this place up."
The Pixar Story Quotes
Extended Reading
