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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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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?"

"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.'"

"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."
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