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.
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
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