Steve had a remarkable knack for letting go of things that didn’t work. If you were in an argument with him, and you convinced him that you were right, he would instantly change his mind. He didn’t ho...
So, when our two like-minded overlords demanded a list of names of people to lay off, Alvy and I gave them two: his and mine.
Not the confidence that we know exactly what to do at all times but the confidence that, together, we will figure it out.
Most people have heard of the Eastern teaching that it is important to exist in the moment. It can be hard to train yourself to observe what is right now (and not to bog down in thoughts of what was a...
Likewise, we trusted the process, but the process didn’t save Toy Story 2 either. Trust the Process had morphed into Assume that the Process Will Fix Things for Us. It gave us solace, which we felt we...
La siguiente (Fig. 2) representaba dónde podríamos llegar en tres meses más (y observarán que no se correspondía con los límites del plan a dos años de Ann). Lo más probable es que terminemos en algún...
Katherine Sarafian, a producer who’s been at Pixar since Toy Story, tells me she prefers to envision triggering the process over trusting it—observing it to see where it’s faltering, then slapping it...
I’m a firm believer in the chaotic nature of the creative process needing to be chaotic. If we put too much structure on it, we will kill it. So there’s a fine balance between providing some structure...
It’s folly to think you can avoid change, no matter how much you might want to. But also, to my mind, you shouldn’t want to. There is no growth or success without change.
It’ll be a day in which you tell us how to make Pixar better, John said. We’ll do no work that day. No visitors will be allowed. Everyone must attend.
Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those lines?’ It’s more of a challenge.
In an unhealthy culture, each group believes that if their objectives trump the goals of the other groups, the company will be better off. In a healthy culture, all constituencies recognize the import...
If you’re sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing?
If one looks at creativity as a resource that we continually draw upon to make something from nothing, then our fear stems from the need to make the nonexistent come into being.
I remember going home at night, exhausted, feeling like I was balancing on the backs of a herd of horses—only some of the horses were thoroughbreds, some were completely wild, and some were ponies who...
How do we enable our people to solve problems? Instead, they asked: How do we prevent our people from screwing up?
Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won’t have errors to fix. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
Completamos o inventamos mucho más de lo que pensamos. De lo que estoy tratando de hablar aquí es de los modelos mentales, que desempeñan un importante papel en la percepción del mundo.
Before we get to the forces that shape that discussion, let’s take a moment to look at things from the filmmakers’ point of view. To a one, they regard these sessions as essential.
Aunque Woody elija finalmente a Andy, lo hace consciente de que con ello se garantiza una tristeza futura. «No puedo impedir que Andy se haga mayor —le dice a Stinky Pete, el buscador de oro—. Pero no...