Disney

“So I said, I wonder if I could get Bob Iger on the phone, and He's also been very generous with his, you know, when I can squeeze him for an hour or 15 minutes here and there.”

“Now the truth was they did a financial analysis and the financial analysis says there's no benefit to using computers.”

“So at this point, Steve, recognizing the advantage that was there, came in and negotiated with Pixar to do a three-picture deal with Disney.”

“Which was that when the film comes out, then Michael Eisner will realize he's just created his worst nightmare, because with two more films, you know, the deal's over with, but now we're a free and independent company, and so we then become a competitor. So St…”

“You could not do production work for the other. But on the other side, you could beg, borrow, and steal ideas from each other. Because we did not want them to be an existential threat to each other. We wanted them to have a good relationship and want the other…”

“Roy said he knew that Walt Disney believed that changing technology of filmmaking brought energy Into the creative process. It wasn't in the rest of the company.”

“Steve realized that it wasn't a matter of getting a good deal over somebody else. You actually need to think of them as equal partners. So in order to do that, We have to be able to put up half the money for the films so that we can genuinely say, coming into …”

“At Disney, all the films should be musicals with five to seven musical numbers and a funny sidekick.”