American - Scientist | March 31, 1945 -
When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.
Edwin Catmull
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At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.
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When I see a film, I'll remember that there was a time when it wasn't working, and there was some pain and angst in order to get it to work.
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I can't look at 'WALL-E' or 'Finding Nemo' or 'Up' and look at in the same way as people outside of the company would look at it. Each one of them had angst.
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The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.
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The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.
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Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.
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We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think.
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One of Pixar's key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity. It is our primary delivery system for straight talk.
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Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.
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The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.
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It doesn't even matter how successful a movie like 'Up' is: you'll never sell a lot of toy walkers. But that's the way we spread out the risk.
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