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"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"I see my life in terms of music."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else."

"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining."

"Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium."

"I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career."

"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 love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?"

"Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it."

"We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films."

"Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them."

"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."
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