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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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" 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. "

" If you're a director presenting a new idea, and the person who can judge whether or not it goes ahead is in the room, that makes you somewhat defensive. "

" 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. "

" Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure. "

" Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments. "

" I know that with most companies that have a lot of success, it tends to throw you off, and you can become more conservative. One of our questions is, How do we keep from being pulled into conservatism because we're afraid of not being successful again? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them. "

" If you see a bad live action film, what are the conclusions you draw? Typically, it is that they made a bunch of mistakes, a bad script, wrong casting. You get into 2D, and you get a few films that are not strong films. And what is the conclusion? That it's 2D? I beg to differ. It's a convenient excuse, but it's just wrong. "

" When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television. "

" We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change. "

" The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio. "

" Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every one of our films, when we start off, they suck... our job is to take it from something that sucks to something that doesn't suck. That's the hard part. "

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" Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company. "

" 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. "

" We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues. "

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

" 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. "

" With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time. "

" A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group. "