Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
John LasseterRead
I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of support and encouragement in a community.
John Lasseter expresses his admiration for the Sonoma wine community, comparing it to Pixar in terms of its collaborative spirit. He emphasizes that within this community, there is no competition, but rather a strong foundation of support where individuals uplift and encourage one another in their endeavors.
In practice
During aToast speech at a community gathering.
Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.
At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
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.
Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.
The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies.
I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.
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