Peter Sohn quotes

I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.
-- Peter Sohn

#Mother #Grew Up #Shane

I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of animation. And I couldn't believe all the artwork the guys had done to find this universal empathy to Dumbo. There was one drawing where they used his ears as a sign: "Eat at Joes!" These guys were continually searching and digging to see what that is.
-- Peter Sohn

#Believe #Drawing #Empathy

One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), what was I like? Sweat pants, turtle-neck kid; didn't know anything about fashion or style, the culture of the world. I was very sheltered.
-- Peter Sohn

#Fashion #Character #Kids

I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.
-- Peter Sohn

#Sight #Degrees #Stuff

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

I feel betrayed by own mother.

I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.