Joe Grant Quotes

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.

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

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

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times. We used two storyboards in 'Margaret': one for the bus accident and for the opera sequence at the end.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

I'm writing a movie script about vampires with an animator called Michael Booth.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the wonderful work that the animators & the designers & the writers did to make your character stand out, it's just so touching, so humbling.

Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.

When you got a great cast around you, it makes the story easier to tell, to be honest.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.