Once, after one of our special effects software guys resigned, he wrote me an email containing two complaints. First, he said, he didn’t like that his job involved cleaning up so many little problems...
Once, I was having lunch with the president of another movie studio, who told me that his biggest problem was not finding good people; it was finding good ideas. I remember being stunned when he said...
Not for George, though. He skipped the raise altogether and asked instead to retain ownership of licensing and merchandising rights to Star Wars. The studio that was distributing the film, 20th Centur...
My conclusion at the time was that finalizing the story before production began was still a worthy goal—we just hadn’t achieved it yet. As we continued to make films, however, I came to believe that m...
Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the ability to recover.
Left to their own devices, most people don’t want to fail. But Andrew Stanton isn’t most people. As I’ve mentioned, he’s known around Pixar for repeating the phrases fail early and fail fast and be wr...
Lee Unkrich, «Hicimos lo imposible. Hicimos lo que todo el mundo dijo que no podríamos. Y lo hemos hecho espectacularmente bien. Eso fue el combustible que nos ha seguido impulsando».
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy, Ego says. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, whi...
In any business, it's important to do your homework, but the point I'm making goes beyond merely getting the facts straight. Research trips challenge our preconceived notions and keep cliches at bay....
In Monsters, Inc., all of our very different plots shared a common feeling—the bittersweet goodbye you feel once a problem—in this case, Sulley’s quest to return Boo to her own world—has been solved....
Ideas come from people. Therefore, people are more important than ideas. Why are we confused about this? Because too many of us think of ideas as being singular, as if they float in the ether, fully f...
Here’s what turns a successful hierarchy into one that impedes progress: when too many people begin, subconsciously, to equate their own value and that of others with where they fall in the pecking or...
Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you get the team right, chances a...
For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right. I
Find, develop, and support good people, and they in turn will find, develop, and own good ideas. In
Creativity involves missteps and imperfections. I wanted our people to get comfortable with that idea—that both the organization and its members should be willing, at times, to operate on the edge.
But I do believe that Steve’s focus on passion and quality will take us places that we cannot yet perceive. And for that I am truly grateful.
As we try to learn from the past, we form patterns of thinking based on our experiences, not realizing that the things that happened have an unfair advantage over the things that didn’t. In other word...
And those cuts stem from a fundamental misconception that art classes are about learning to draw. In fact, they are about learning to see.)
A juzgar por lo que aplaudían los empleados de Disney, deduje que nuestras palabras —tal como Steve nos había pedido— no les hicieron sentirse como si hubieran perdido la batalla. Años más tarde pregu...