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" I did like 'Despicable Me.' I thought it was quite good. "

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" Are the Simpsons cool? They are, and that is crude 2D animation. "

" Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order. "

" One reason for keeping Disney animation separate from Pixar was that by solving their own problems when they finished a film, Disney could say, 'Nobody bailed us out; we did it.' And it's a very important social thing for them to do that. "

" I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with. "

" We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative. "

" 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. "

" After Pixar's 2006 merger with the Walt Disney Company, its CEO, Bob Iger, asked me, chief creative officer John Lasseter, and other Pixar senior managers to help him revive Disney Animation Studios. The success of our efforts prompted me to share my thinking on how to build a sustainable creative organization. "

" I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be. "

" At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally. "

" Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been experiments around of people trying to do that, and always excited about it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I worked closely with Steve Jobs for twenty-six years. To this day, for all that has been written about him, I don't believe that any of it comes close to capturing the man I knew. "

" Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole. "

" I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in. "

" The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films. "

" 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. "

" For me, one of the great tragedies is the conclusion studios have drawn about traditional animation. I believe that 2D animation could be just as vital as it ever was. I think the problem has been with the stories. "

" In life,you're going to have risk, so you have to say, 'My attitude going forward is how to I fix the problem.' And it's not trying to cling onto the past. When I look around, most problems happen because people are trying to cling onto the past. "

" In the early 1970s, I headed to graduate school at the University of Utah and joined the pioneering program in computer graphics because I realized that's where I could combine my interests in art and computer science. "

" If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder. "

" Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology. "

" The Braintrust developed organically out of the rare working relationship among the five men who led and edited the production of 'Toy Story' - John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, and Joe Ranft. "

" Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are. "

" When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I wanted to be an animator and even took art classes. But by the time I was in college, I realized I couldn't draw well enough. "

" I started off life at Pixar with interesting technical problems. But as time has moved on, I found that the social and management problem was far more complex and interesting. "

" As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film. "

" We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think. "

" Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not just wandering around in the world. "

" I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do. "