Lee Unkrich Quotes

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

I like making movies.

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

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that.

We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

I love making movies.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.