Director Quotes

I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

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.

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.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead 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.

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

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

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

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

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

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control tha

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

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.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

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.

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 stor

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.'

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.