To me, I love being able to see some of John C. Reilly’s face in Ralph, and some of Sarah Silverman in Vanellope. That there are hints of them there. In the broad strokes, they are there. – Rich Moore
Rather than just making a movie about video games, I wanted to start with the character and what the character was going through. – Rich Moore
Good comedy films, if you listen to the score, the music is not trying to be funny. It’s always, in a way, underscoring the tragedy and struggle of the main character. – Rich Moore
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. – Rich Moore
Arcade-game characters have no free will. They’re programmed to do one thing day in and day out – they don’t have a choice in the matter. – Rich Moore
I remember as a kid seeing Pong in a pizza place where I grew up in Oxnard, California, and having my mind blown by it. I thought it was a TV. I thought it was just something playing on a television. But then to be able to manipulate the paddle, and the ball with the knob was, in those days, pretty huge to a little kid! It was a simpler time. – Rich Moore
I like when entertainment not only makes me laugh or cry or thrills me, but makes the world a little clearer – and makes myself a little clearer. – Rich Moore
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. – Rich Moore
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. – Rich Moore
Disney is a place that I’ve always rooted for, and I think the audience does also because we have a deep, deep love for what that means. – Rich Moore
It feels like there’s something for everyone in video games. It’s not just a toy for a certain age group. It’s steeped in the culture now. – Rich Moore
I don’t like movies, TV shows, or books or anything that’s preaching to the audience or speaking down to us. – Rich Moore
If people want to watch a movie about a fox and rabbit becoming friends and turn that into an evil, agenda-pushing practice, then what can you say? – Rich Moore
It wasn’t until I was in that world, directing shows and movies, that I realized basically my job is to give back to another generation what the generation before me gave to me. – Rich Moore
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. – Rich Moore
From the moment we started working on the first ‘Wreck-It Ralph,’ we knew there were so many possibilities with these characters. – Rich Moore
The challenge is, how do you take someone who’s supposed to be a villain and make that appealing and lovable? You have to empathize with him and put yourself in his shoes and root for him and want him to have the things he wants. – Rich Moore
I’m really excited that the studio is trying, because when I began my career in the early ’90s, late ’80s, Disney was not something – though I respected it and liked what they were doing in those years – it’s not like I thought I wanted to be a part of that studio right now. – Rich Moore
When I was young, I was on a real hot streak with ‘Crazy Climber.’ There was a good three-week span where I couldn’t get that game out of my head. I could not get back to the arcade fast enough to try and climb up there and not get kicked by a potted plant this time. That one got under my skin. – Rich Moore
For artists, we’re always looking for approval. We’re putting our artwork out there and saying, ‘What do you think?’ – Rich Moore
There was a moment with ‘Zootopia’ where we said, ‘This is the experiment: let’s try Judy in the role of the protagonist. Let her character introduce us to the city and this world.’ And suddenly, all that struggling and trying to make traction into this story was done. – Rich Moore
You put as much effort as you can when they’re young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they’re older now, my kids. I’m at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there. – Rich Moore
‘The Critic’ was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he’s got a great, great voice for animation. – Rich Moore
Judy Hopps truly believes in something. We’re not just giving her the run of the story, where we give her everything. Through her actions, she has to prove what she believes in. Personally speaking, I think that’s cool. – Rich Moore
I think that ‘Family Guy’ and ‘The Critic’ come from some of the same kind of seed. I don’t know what it is. – Rich Moore
We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie. – Rich Moore