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How Creativity, Animation and Stories define us. In these exclusive interviews we speak to Ed Catmull (Co-Founder of Pixar Animation, and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios), Nick Park (Oscar Winning Writer,…
My first business was a very successful digital agency and consultancy, it gave me almost a decade-long adventure, taking me around the world and enjoying the thrill of being on top of…
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What failure really means is that you are trying to live life, and the fact that you fail means that you are trying. As soon as you try to avoid failure, you are facing the wrong direction.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
If you don't have some failures continually, it is a signal that you have retreated into the conservative past.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
People should adopt a fearlessness where they are trying new things, but then accept that by doing this- a certain percentage of things will fail. Failure is not a necessary evil, but rather- it is a positive part of on-going progress.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
To me it was a great revelation to find creativity in the midst of something that was not thought of as being creative.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
We always have this mix in each area, but people tend to categorise creativity by discipline rather than by the individuals within those disciplines.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
What I realised was, that in studying other manufacturing companies, in particular Toyota, I could see that their mechanism for distributing responsibility and pushing it far down the organisation turned them into a creative enterprise! This is the opposite of what most people think, which is that the purpose of manufacturing is to reliably produce the same thing over and over again.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
Fundamentally, where creativity is concerned, people are trying to express an idea or solve a problem. This applies in business, the arts, or even solving family or societal problems.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
I think of creativity very broadly, for me it's about solving problems. A lot of people put creativity into the narrow bucket of artistic expression; including film-making, creative writing, music and so on- but there are many who understand that if you look at science and engineering, there are many very interesting problems that require creativity and you see a great outpouring of new ideas.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
What failure really means is that you are trying to live life, and the fact that you fail means that you are trying. As soon as you try to avoid failure, you are facing the wrong direction.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
If you don't have some failures continually, it is a signal that you have retreated into the conservative past. Most people still interpret failure as an unfortunate thing to get to success, but this isn't actually what it means.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
People should adopt a fearlessness where they are trying new things, but then accept that by doing this- a certain percentage of things will fail. Failure is not a necessary evil, but rather- it is a positive part of on-going progress.
— Ed CatmullCo-Founder of Pixar & Pioneer in Computer Graphics
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