The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting. — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
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… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down. — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
At Pixar, I don't have to compromise at all. When I look at the finished "Toy Story 3," I don't sit and constantly think,… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
I had worked for a lot of directors whose work I didn't respect, and as I was editing material, I was thinking about how… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack. — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
I love movies that are funny and scary and truly emotional all in one film, and I don't feel like I see movies like… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
People talk a lot about Pixar going off the rails. A lot of people are saying they aren't happy that we are making sequels.… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage. — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
You can be stuck for two weeks on a problem, and then you get the right couple of people in a room, and in… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
I just ended up focusing on film editing as I was getting my career started. I'm very passionate about editing and will continue to… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself. — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Every one of us at Pixar is worried that we're going to be the one to make the dud. — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
It wasn't the first film to show a kind of alternate vision of suburbia, but it left an indelible impression, I think, on everybody,… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
