Quotes by Edwin Catmull

I can't look at 'WALL-E' or 'Finding Nemo' or 'Up' and look at in the same way as people outside of the company would look at it. Each one of them had angst.

When I see a film, I'll remember that there was a time when it wasn't working, and there was some pain and angst in order to get it to work.

At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

If you're a director presenting a new idea, and the person who can judge whether or not it goes ahead is in the room, that makes you somewhat defensive.

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.

Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.

In the early 1970s, I headed to graduate school at the University of Utah and joined the pioneering program in computer graphics because I realized that's where I could combine my interests in art and computer science.

When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I wanted to be an animator and even took art classes. But by the time I was in college, I realized I couldn't draw well enough.