Ed Catmull Quotes
The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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It feels so good to tell the truth.
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When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
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The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
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I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...
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You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
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The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.
