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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.

~Edwin Catmull

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Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in the 'Toy Story' films, for example, are never audible to humans.

~Edwin Catmull

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While problems in a film are fairly easy to identify, the sources of those problems are often extraordinarily difficult to assess. A mystifying plot twist or a less-than-credible change of heart in our main character is often caused by subtle underlying issues elsewhere in the story.

~Edwin Catmull

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Beware of being blinded by your own success.

~Edwin Catmull

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One of the effects Pixar University has on the culture is that it makes people less self-conscious about their work and gets them comfortable with being publicly reviewed.

~Edwin Catmull

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I've certainly seen R&D groups, typically funded by large corporations, where they bring together a lot of smart people and nothing happens. And the reason nothing happens is that they don't have a clear goal.

~Edwin Catmull

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Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.

~Edwin Catmull

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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.

~Edwin Catmull

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What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

~Edwin Catmull

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

~Edwin Catmull

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: March 31st, 1945

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