Lee Unkrich Quotes

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

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

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.

Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.

Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.

I remember seeing my first Disney film when I was 13 or 14. It was 'Jungle Book,' and I remember really falling in love with it.

I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

For 'Toy Story 3' to be recognized by the Academy as not only one of the best animated films of the year, but also as one of the 10 best pictures of the year, is both humbling and overwhelming.

In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.

Though I was nominated for awards for films like 'Tezaab' and 'Apna Sapna Money Money' but I never won an award. Now I am not even nominated for any awards but still I attend the award functions as I love being there despite figuring prominently in a lot of leg pulling that goes around in the award ceremonies.

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.

I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy.

Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'