We have had a substantial difficulty with every film that we made. That has included complete restarts. Toy Story 2 was a restart. Ratatouille was a restart. And The Good Dinosaur is a restart. In the past, because we were a little company, nobody paid attention or they didn’t know. It’s because Pixar is successful that now people are paying attention and saying, “Oh, what’s going on there?” What’s going on is what has always gone on: Ultimately, there’s a criterion whether the film is good enough and we don’t let the other stuff get in the way of it.
One thing I don’t believe in is the notion of a perfect process. Our goal isn’t to prevent all the problems; our goal is making good movies.
Ed Catmull as quoted in in David A. Price, "Managing Creativity: Lessons from Pixar and Disney Animation," Harvard Business Review, 9 Apr 2014, blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/managing-creativity-lessons-from-pixar-and-disney-animation/.
