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"Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."
"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."
"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."
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"Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults."
"I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career."
"If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story."
"Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else."
"There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them."
"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining."
"Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking."
"Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them."
"I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives."
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