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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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.
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I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
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The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.
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I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
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The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.
