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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ed Catmull

Come And Go

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" I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention. "

" 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. "

" We'll fund a project even if I'm skeptical because I'd rather be proven wrong by somebody on the inside than by somebody on the outside. "

" The trick is, in everything we do, there are things we love. And sometimes the things we love get us stuck. And it's only if we let go of some of those things that we free the movie up to become greater. "

Ed Catmull

Love

Everything

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

Ed Catmull

Despicable

Did

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

" 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. "

Ed Catmull

You

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" Encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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? "

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