With certain ideas, you can predict commercial success. So with a 'Toy Story 3' or a 'Cars 2,' you know the idea… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
We've always had ups and downs at Pixar, starting with the high we felt doing something we'd never done - 'Toy Story'… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose.… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
The Braintrust developed organically out of the rare working relationship among the five men who led and edited the production of 'Toy… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
For me, the work we did to turn around 'Toy Story 2' was the defining moment in Pixar's history. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
We encourage our people to build their ideas from scratch, and we give them the resources - and, crucially, the candid feedback… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
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. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking,… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
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… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
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… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
With certain ideas, you can predict commercial success. So with a 'Toy Story 3' or a 'Cars 2,' you know the idea is more… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
