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1. "The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one."
Author: Andrew Stanton
2. "Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it."
Author: Andrew Stanton
3. "I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel."
Author: Andrew Stanton
4. "Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels."
Author: Andrew Stanton
5. "I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar."
Author: Andrew Stanton
6. "Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here."
Author: Brad Bird
7. "I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar."
Author: Brad Bird
8. "At the casting sessions it was all boys and though I wasn't exactly bored I didn't need to be there, and songs constantly floating in the car keep commenting on everything neutral encased within the windshield's frame ( … one time you were blowing young ruffians … sung over the digital billboard on Sunset advertising the new Pixar movie) and the fear builds into a muted fury and then has no choice but to melt away into a simple and addictive sadness."
Author: Bret Easton Ellis
9. "Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way."
Author: Joe Grant
10. "Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject."
Author: Joe Grant
11. "As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel."
Author: John Goodman
12. "Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'"
Author: John Lasseter
13. "At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work."
Author: John Lasseter
14. "At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten."
Author: John Lasseter
15. "When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!"
Author: Larry The Cable Guy
16. "Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting."
Author: Michael Arndt
17. "Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
Author: Steve Jobs
18. "I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best."
Author: Steve Jobs
19. "So [Steve Jobs] had the Pixar building designed to promote encounters and unplanned collaborations ... "to make people get out of their offices and mingle in the central atrium with people they might not otherwise see." The front doors and main stairs and corridors all led to the atrium, the cafe and the mailboxes were there, the conference rooms had windows that looked out onto it, and the six-hundred-seat theater and two smaller screening rooms all spilled into it. "Steve's theory worked from day one, "Lasseter recalled. "I kept running into people I hadn't seen for months. I've never seen a building that promoted collaboration and creativity as well as this one."
Author: Walter Isaacson
20. "Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. " There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat,"he said."Thats crazy, Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say ' Wow, and soon your cooking up all sorts of ideas." So he had the Pixar building planned to promote encounters and unplanned collaborations. " If a building doesn't encourage that, you'll lose a lot of innovation and the magic that's sparked by serendipity,"he said."
Author: Walter Isaacson
21. "Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA "ANDY" CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the Pixar deal, then clashed with Jobs. LARRY ELLISON. CEO of Oracle and personal friend of Jobs."
Author: Walter Isaacson
22. "Lasseter and his Pixar team had the first half of the movie ready to screen by November 1993, so they brought it down to Burbank to show to Katzenberg and other Disney executives. Peter Schneider, the head of feature animation, had never been enamored of Katzenberg's idea of having outsiders make animation for Disney, and he declared it a mess and ordered that production be stopped. Katzenberg agreed. "Why is this so terrible?" he asked a colleague, Tom Schumacher. "Because it's not their movie anymore," Schumacher bluntly replied. He later explained, "They were following Katzenberg's notes,"
Author: Walter Isaacson
23. "Most Pixar films are better than most live action films."
Author: Wesley Morris

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