Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.
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.
Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.
'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.
You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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.
You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.
