Words matter. These are the best Rich Moore Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I spent a lot of money and time at pizza places. Golf and Stuff in Ventura, right off the 101, was my hangout. Skating Plus, right behind it, always had a good selection of games. That was the place to be when you were from Oxnard back in the ’80s.
Between ‘Futurama’ and ‘Simpsons,’ I’m able to work with the voices of Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, and the cast of ‘Star Trek.’ It’s great, you know; it’s great to work with such talented people.
My first movie I saw when I was a kid was ‘The Jungle Book.’ I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation.
For artists, we’re always looking for approval. We’re putting our artwork out there and saying, ‘What do you think?’
It was never someplace that I said, ‘In my career, I must work at Disney.’
I don’t like movies, TV shows, or books or anything that’s preaching to the audience or speaking down to us.
I love the idea of a very simple 8-bit video game character struggling with the complex question: ‘isn’t there more to life than the role I’ve been assigned?’
I think when, like, things like ‘The Wizard’ and even like ‘Tron,’ when it first came out, I was a teenager, and, man, I really wanted to kind of just kind of disappear into it.
A good movie makes the audience feel like they’ve journeyed with the characters.
I’m part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA.
I love living in Burbank. It has major movie studios, huge media empires, but the city still feels like a mom-and-pop town. It’s not pretentious at all. It doesn’t feel like a big Hollywood town, and it has every right to be, but it’s very friendly and easygoing.
I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors’ faces in them. It wasn’t an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren’t lost behind a bunch of appliances.
What we’ve done now sits with those films that inspired me as a kid, and I hope there is a kid like myself today who is watching ‘Wreck-It Ralph,’ and he or she is inspired the way I was inspired when I was 5 years old, and now they’ll pursue this crazy dream.
Being able to make a comedy at Disney was really appealing.
We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie.
I think that ‘Family Guy’ and ‘The Critic’ come from some of the same kind of seed. I don’t know what it is.
We can’t put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn’t have substance.
I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.
I always thought that Mario was kind of the bad guy – because if you knew about the game, there was supposed to be a back story where Mario was teasing the ape, and the ape stole his girlfriend, and this was kind of karma for Mario, you know?
I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.
I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: ‘What’s the meaning of life? What if I don’t like this job I’ve been programmed to do?’
This new generation of animators was trained in CG. They know all the fundamentals of any 2D animator, but a lot of them learned on these CG rigs. You give them a good rig, and they can make that thing sing.
I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.
I loved ‘The Secret of NIMH.’ When that came out, it felt like, ‘Wow, this is something really, really new.’ It looked like a Disney film, but it felt very cutting edge to me. To a twelve-year-old kid, it seemed very inspiring.
I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day.
