Quotes About Innovation

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

A lot of the album 'The Definition' was made from two things: Pixar movies and J. Dilla.

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.

When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.

Everybody involved in Pixar, I've not met one person who's not incredibly creative and nice and lovely and know what they're doing.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.

When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.

Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.

At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they're just used to our process now where it's a discussion; it's a discovery. It's not individual artists going and fussing off by themselves in isolation and then handing their work in.

Sales went crazy when we made the pizza perfect.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.