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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Can We Discuss the Concept of Failure Up?

Pixar's concept of failing up is to try something and then discard it. "They want you to be daring, they want you to go out on the boards," says director John Lasseter. It's a churning, iterative process in which Pixar expects lots of failure.

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