Tim Sweeney Quotes

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

The problem with trying to measure productivity is that it measures only how well people can do the wrong jobs. Any job that can be measured for productivity probably should be eliminated from the list of jobs that people do.

What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product.

Fundamentally, where you have an industry in which labor is the primary cost, we can’t compete and probably shouldn’t.

We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will.

When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that.

As long as we are one of the most expensive countries to produce in, we should focus on cutting costs that directly and indirectly weigh on business.

With human inspectors, it's difficult to get even the same person to make consistent judgments.

I don't have anything against CGI.

The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste.