Lee Unkrich

“'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.”

“Every one of us at Pixar is worried that we're going to be the one to make the dud.”

“Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?”

“It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.”

“After we finished 'Toy Story 2,' we talked about going right into making 'Toy Story 3,' because we had an idea that we thought had some promise. But there were a bunch of boring contractual problems going on between Disney and Pixar at the time that kept us from making the movie.”

“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 I would have shot the scenes and what I would have done to make the scenes better. After several years of that, I got to the point that I was pretty confident I could sit in the director's chair.”

“When we made 'Toy Story,' journalists were more interested in talking about the technique because it was so new and unknown, and we just wanted to talk about the story.”

“My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.”

“The world does not want to see a Pixar film that's not great.”

“It's an incredible honor to be nominated by the Academy.”

“When we made 'Toy Story,' we knew, even back then, that this was going to be the ugliest film we would ever produce.”

“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 books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.”

“It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.”

“We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.”

“We know that families and kids are going to be an important part of our audience, so we've always made sure that we've picked subject matter that was appropriate for kids. But I think if you try to target a movie to kids, you're going to fail.”

“How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life.”

“I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.”

“We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.”

“I love Giuseppe Tornatore, the guy that did 'Cinema Paradiso.'”

“We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.”