We certainly had our share of failures early on an... -Christopher Miller

We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.

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American filmmaker and animator, known for co-directing movies like "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and "The Lego Movie."

Christopher Miller Quotes to Explore

I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....
Movies are not about a person; they're about a relationship. All of them are about a relationship....
Just from a psychological standpoint, it's really helpful having films with a joyful message and positivity, so we try to do that with all our movies,...
All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a terrible idea. Doing '21 Jump Street' as...
That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!...
What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different...
There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are....
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life....
We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning....

Learning Quotes to Explore

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm ...
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous lear...
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, ma...
The role of innovation inside the company is so important. That's how we get growth, and there's no way to drive innovation without learning and chang...
So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant...
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsc...
I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really...
Obviously, learning the martial arts is a big part of my training, but the other part of being a Marvel superhero is, well, looking like a superhero....
My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started...
Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't ...