Top 164 Pixar Quotes & Sayings

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids’ films...

I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

Pixar makes movies that make sense for Pixar, and Disney makes movies that make sense for Disney, and they've each emerged in their own unique way.

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.

Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

After Pixar's 2006 merger with the Walt Disney Company, its CEO, Bob Iger, asked me, chief creative officer John Lasseter, and other Pixar senior managers to help him revive Disney Animation Studios. The success of our efforts prompted me to share my thinking on how to build a sustainable creative organization.

I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't respond to the failures. If we respond, and we think it through and figure out how to move ahead, then we're learning from it. That's what Pixar is.

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

If I went back to live-action, I'd have to do it the Pixar way. If I didn't, I'd feel like I was walking a tightrope without a net.

When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.

At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

Pixar make kids' movies, but there are jokes in there for adults, and it never gets too sentimental.

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.

Pixar has the integrity to not rush.

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.

Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.

I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.

I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!

I've never pitched a joke that I wouldn't be comfortable seeing in a Pixar film.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star.

When I was at Pixar, I was in my hole. I was an animator, I had my shots and I was like, "Yeah, I've gotta make this perfect!" It's a very selfish thing.

Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

The world does not want to see a Pixar film that's not great.

I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.

I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

I love to write music, watch a Pixar film, or play video games with my family and friends.

A lot of the album 'The Definition' was made from two things: Pixar movies and J. Dilla.

In the earliest days of Pixar, when we were making 'Toy Story' and 'A Bug's Life,' we all came together as a group.

When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.

What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.

I grew up watching Pixar movies. And my favourite - if you don't count 'The Good Dinosaur' - is the first Pixar movie my older brother showed me. That would be 'Monsters, Inc.' I also like Disney - 'The Lion King' is probably my all-time favourite movie.

Every one of us at Pixar is worried that we're going to be the one to make the dud.

Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.

I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids.

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

For me, the work we did to turn around 'Toy Story 2' was the defining moment in Pixar's history.

When I want to get inspired, I'll put a Pixar movie on silent and listen to Nas.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.

I auditioned for 'Coco' when I was nine years old, and I had no idea I was auditioning for a Disney/Pixar movie. When I was 10, they told me that it was going to be a Disney/Pixar movie, and I was just mind-blown. I was so shocked and thankful that I was going to Pixar.

I don't think that people think of Marvel in the same way that people think of Pixar. Because Pixar is story-orientated, and they think of these guys as epic movie orientated. But they're story-orientated. That's the secret.

I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.

I started at Pixar the month Monsters Inc. came out.

Everybody involved in Pixar, I've not met one person who's not incredibly creative and nice and lovely and know what they're doing.