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Jobs said he would provide the money.
喬布斯表示自己會提供資金。
"I believed in what John was doing," he later said. "It was art. He cared, and I cared. I always said yes."
“我看好約翰在做的東西，”他后來說道，“那是藝術，是他關心的東西，也是我關心的東西。我總是同意他的計劃。”
His only comment at the end of Lasseter's presentation was, "All I ask of you, John, is to make it great."
看完拉塞特的單人表演展示后，喬布斯只說了一句活，“我只要求一件事，約翰，把它做好。”
Tin Toy went on to win the 1988 Academy Award for animated short films, the first computer-generated film to do so.
《錫鐵小兵》贏得了1988年奧斯卡最佳動畫短片獎，這是首部獲此殊榮的電腦制作動畫短片。
To celebrate, Jobs took Lasseter and his team to Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco.
為了慶祝，喬布斯帶著拉塞特和整個制作團隊來到綠地餐廳--舊金山一家素食館。
Lasseter grabbed the Oscar, which was in the center of the table, held it aloft,
拉塞特抓起放在桌子中央的小金人，舉得高高的，
and toasted Jobs by saying, "All you asked is that we make a great movie."
向喬布斯敬酒道：“你所有的要求，便是要我們做一部偉大的電影。”
The new team at Disney--Michael Eisner the CEO and Jeffrey Katzenberg in the film division
迪士尼的新團隊--CEO邁克爾·艾斯納，電影部門主管杰弗里·卡曾伯格
began a quest to get Lasseter to come back.
開始要求拉塞特重回迪士尼。
They liked Tin Toy, and they thought that something more could be done with animated stories of toys that come alive and have human emotions.
他們喜歡《錫鐵小兵》，認為這種動畫故事--讓玩具擁有生命和人類的感情--還有很大的發揮余地。
But Lasseter, grateful for Jobs's faith in him, felt that Pixar was the only place where he could create a new world of computer-generated animation.
但是，拉塞特感激喬布斯對自己的信任，認為皮克斯才是自己能夠創作電腦動畫的唯一地方。
He told Catmull, "I can go to Disney and be a director, or I can stay here and make history."
他告訴卡特穆爾，“我可以去迪士尼，在那兒做個總監；或者留在這兒，譜寫歷史。”
So Disney began talking about making a production deal with Pixar.
于是，迪士尼反過來開始接觸皮克斯，希望簽署制作協議。
