Lee Unkrich Quotes

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

It is so much fun to make content for kids and people of all ages. Families can sit down and watch my stuff.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult

Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.

Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may be right in their opinion, but that doesn't make me wrong. If I try too hard to woo them, I'd be cheating my core audience.

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

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

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.