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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

"My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title."
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"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family."

"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."

"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.'"
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