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.
I take friendship very seriously.
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly
Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
Winning friends begins with friendliness.
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