To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

by Lawrence Levy

One of those plates carried the intense pressures of innovation:

If I learned anything at Pixar, it is that story comes first. Pixar’s creative leader, John Lasseter, used to say, “Great graphics will keep us entertained for a couple of minutes; it is story that holds us in our seats.”

“reality distortion field”

nonchalant

Early in my career I had learned the wisdom of not griping over the hand I was dealt.

“There’s nothing you can do about where the pieces are,” he’d say. “It’s only your next move that matters.”