Pixar

“In that 10 year period, Steve fired two members of the board of directors at Pixar. The reason he fired them was that they never disagreed, and he said, if they don't disagree with me, then they aren't bringing any value to the company.”

“So paying attention to the dynamics of those rooms is the job. They're the ones that are making the movies. I'm not making the movie. I'm just trying to make sure they work well together.”

“Steve had such a powerful voice that it didn't matter when he spoke, Ed Catmull: He was going to have this extremely strong effect on the dynamics of the room, and he understood that. Ed Catmull: So, it was the reason he didn't come. Ed Catmull: I said, you…”

“We had to get another outside force, and the outside force was Steve Jobs.”

“No. I think some people think he did, and I, that was interesting there, but no, he didn't. He was very, we talked about this. He was very clear about it. Like any project, you know, when you work on something, there are a lot of people around that are working…”

“There was nothing that Steve ever said that had not been said by some of the, somebody else before in one of those meetings.”

“A mission statement is an answer when typically we should always be asking questions.”

“And once or twice per film, then magic happens. By magic, I mean that ego has left the room. You have these intense discussions, and somebody can say something, and it doesn't work, and they're not thinking about, my idea wasn't there. They're always back on t…”

“Michael Eisner was still the CEO, and he would not have continued with Michael Eisner. So, since we were getting into the contract, he started discussions with other studios which would mean, you know, them doing the distribution.”

“If I know that I'm wrong half the time, that I catch it earlier. I special, I spend less time on the wrong decision. So it looks like the ratio is different. The reality is, I'm just wrong half the time. I think it's important to think that way, and that allow…”

“There were three times in the history of Pixar in which a group arose that felt like they were second class and we missed it and we were looking for it.”

“Before I left, we completed 21 of the 22 films we started. So, but it's just bizarre in that world, and at Disney we completed, by the time I left, 10 of the 11 that we'd started.”

“Our contract with Disney, an initial contract, was to make three movies. And at the time it was signed Disney perceived that Pixar was going to produce boutique films, their word, much as they would consider A Nightmare Before Christmas, a stop motion animated…”

“The one thing that the director can't do, they can screw up in all sorts of ways, but they can't lose the team. That was our guiding line.”

“If somebody violates a rule of common sense, People do once in a while. You call them on the carpet, you tell them you can't do it, but you don't make a rule so that nobody else makes the same mistake. Because as soon as you make more rules, then people are wo…”

“Asking the question might have been a natural thing, to ask. But trying to answer it is an act of separation. That's the problem with it. Because I'm trying to say, how am I separate from others? And really, I never was. It's like none of this would have happe…”

“That contract gave them the right To look at everything we did and all of our processes. As we started to become successful, nobody from Disney ever came and said, what are you guys doing?”

“Bob, Decided to come up as soon as, you know, he was made the CEO. He came up to Pixar, and, ah, the idea was to spend a day with us, ah, seeing what we were doing, how we thought about things, and what we had in the works. And when he came, he walked up our w…”

“Roy, when he, when now he came in, because he's part of the rescue of Disney as this possible takeover, He's the one who said we need to bring some technology into the studio because we're stayed. He's the one that initiated the contact with us at Pixar.”

“Bob Iger starts the conversation by saying, I've got a crappy hand, can we talk? And for him, it's like, that's a show of honesty that's unusual. David Senra: Usually you don't start a negotiation by saying, hey, other party, you have all the leverage here. …”

“If things are going well, you like a bigger group because you're training other people to feel comfortable. In this way of working. But the problem is really serious when you go to a small group where they're for past that stuff and they can focus on the probl…”

“It is the first motion picture where every frame went through the computer. Was using the paint system that we had developed under contract for Disney.”

“Steve walked away feeling like it was one of the worst deal he's ever struck.”

“It's actually when he showed us the first iPhone when it was a secret. And we're on this bridge between the one building and there's a bridge over that goes between another tall building next to it. And the secret lab is where they're designing it. And he told…”

“I consulted for years for him on Pixar when he first had the idea, and it was some of the best times I ever had because he's whip smart, unbelievable memory, totally unstoppable with an idea,”