Occupation: Film Director Birth: October 9, 1968
People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5 bill once and felt so bad because the other….
When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons..
Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or ….
You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than others. But if you….
Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness deals with loss. And I….
One of the other experts we consulted with, this guy named Dacher Keltner, he was big on sadness as community bonding - I think is the word he used..
The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that th….
It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or some….
But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catm….
I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion. In fact, that was - at the very beginning of this process, we realized, man, we really don't know very ….
You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was ….
If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your cur….
They're expecting us to make mistakes, and they've set up a process that allows us to correct for that and do it again and iterate. So I think that's….
In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent..
Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun..
Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction..
Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible..
My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research..
I mean, I've - these other films were flukes. I don't know what I'm doing. I should just quit. What would I miss? I'd miss my house and I'd miss goin….
And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative asp….
Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early in his career identified six. That….