Edwin Catmull Quotes

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

Edwin Catmull

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• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Team
  • Great Team

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Want
  • Team
  • Soccer

• My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Film
  • Weird
  • First

• The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Work
  • Job
  • Film

• I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Team
  • Running
  • Never

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Film
  • Listen

• It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • More
  • Mediocre
  • Magnificent

• I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Film
  • Made
  • Because

• I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Team
  • Care
  • Look

• Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Women
  • Money
  • Team

• Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • You
  • Film
  • Relationships

• Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Team
  • Balance

• Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Film

• I've done a lot of TV, but not film.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Done
  • Film
  • TV

• Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Way
  • Film
  • Spreading

• I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think about all the things white people have accomplished throughout history, I smile, and I nod, and I think to myself, 'Yeah, I'm glad I'm on that team.'

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Thinking
  • History

• Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

  

  Etta James
  • Healthy
  • Lose
  • Weight

• When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Party
  • Hair
  • Wind

• The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Weird
  • Dog
  • Bird

• I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

  

  Jonathan Krohn
  • Believe

• You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Team
  • Film
  • Mediocre