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How Pixar's Ed Catmull and Pete Docter make magic on and off screen

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being True to Who You Are

"There's the story cliché which is be yourself just be true authentic to who you are. It's actually it's not quite that simple for me as a director on monsters," he says. "I think what you have to in the long run figure out like okay again what's the spirit of the know what are they trying to get to and how can I do that in a way that feels comfortable and authentic to who I am?" Pixar got a better version of Steve Jobs than Apple did at the same point in time, Ed adds.

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