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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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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.

Edwin Catmull

I liked the first ‘Kung Fu Panda.’

Edwin Catmull

Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.

Edwin Catmull

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we’re responsible because we put them in that position.

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If you think you’re right 80% of the time, you’re deluded.

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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.

Edwin Catmull

For me, the work we did to turn around ‘Toy Story 2′ was the defining moment in Pixar’s history.

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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.

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My best advice came by examples. A supportive environment at home, school, and grad school. Support at the New York Institute of Technology, then George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bob Iger. The examples meant that I should support other people, even when things aren’t going well. It will pay off.

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One term that’s used in this industry a lot is this notion of ‘feeding the beast.’ You’ve got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They’re the basis of your business.

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If you want people to be let loose, you can’t over-control them.

Edwin Catmull

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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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.

Edwin Catmull

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.

Edwin Catmull

I exercise in the gym about three times a week. I vary the workout every time, but I’ll always do some type of circuit work with weights. It gets my heart rate up without putting too much stress on my knees, which for some reason seem to be older than the rest of my body.

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Sometimes a leap of faith doesn’t pan out.

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People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don’t actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

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

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

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Pixar is a community in the true sense of the word. We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic beliefs: Talent is rare.

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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.

Edwin Catmull

We’ve always had ups and downs at Pixar, starting with the high we felt doing something we’d never done – ‘Toy Story’ – and the low we felt right after when we realized we’d messed a bunch of things up along the way.

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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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I’ve always been surprised at the number of people who think we’ve got it all figured out. It’s incorrect, and it’s a real problem.

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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.

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Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films.

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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.

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Believe me, you don’t want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out.

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

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Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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