Edwin Catmull Quotes
The first principle was “Story Is King,” by which we meant that we would let nothing—not the technology, not the merchandising possibilities—get in the way of our story.
Quotes to Explore
-
I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
-
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
-
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
-
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
-
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
-
I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
-
I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
-
I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
-
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
-
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
-
I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's easy to dislike, but I don't get it. Whatever. I'll do what I do.
-
I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
-
I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
-
I will remember you;Will you remember me?Don't let your life pass you by;Weep not for the memories.
-
If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.
-
What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
-
What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
-
I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.
-
We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
-
Henry Scoop Jackson of Washington state said: Others may seek to make America great again. I seek to make America good again. For in the last analysis, our claim to greatness will be found in our goodness.
-
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
-
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
-
The first principle was “Story Is King,” by which we meant that we would let nothing—not the technology, not the merchandising possibilities—get in the way of our story.
