If I learned anything at Pixar, it is that story comes first. Pixar’s creative leader, John Lasseter, used to say, “Great graphics will keep us entertained for a couple of minutes; it is story that holds us in our seats.”
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“Not many people know how to be satisfied.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. It comes from hiring innovators focused on the big picture who can orient themselves within a problem and solve it without having their hand held the whole time. We call it being loosely coupled but tightly aligned.”
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
― That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
“The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“The path to innovation begins with curiosity”
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
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