Nice roundup of the Pixar references in Pixar films.

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"During 90 percent of your workday, you're in this box -- you get to do only certain things," said Polson. "And yet we're all here because we love movies and art. At Pixar University, all the boxes get removed. All the walls come down, and you get to be the director of your own creative idea." Polson has taken classes in drawing, screenwriting, and color, and he's completed a course in which he made his own short film.

Not long after the improv class, Polson met Catmull again, this time to present a work-related proposal. "I'm sitting here with the founder of our industry, and I'm trying to pitch my idea," he said. "If I hadn't had the chance to whack him with a balloon, I don't think I would have functioned."
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"Success hides problems."