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.
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I have a great team at WME.
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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.
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Film is anti-language.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.
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Baseball is a team game.
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I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
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I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
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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.
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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.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.
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I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
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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.
