Occupation: Film Director Birth: October 9, 1968
We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. ….
Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawin….
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….
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..
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….
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 ….
The idea kind of started with me just thinking about what would be fun to see in animation, you know - what have I not seen? For some reason, I got t….
So we can sit with Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton, and all the other folks and experience what the film is going to be like. And then we go away into….
And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult ….
We found some scientists think that there are basically three emotions. Others went up to 27. Others had 16. Some were in the middle. So we were kind….
It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea t….
When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons..
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 ….
And usually I'm not watching the screen. I'm kind of sitting and looking off to the side, spying on people to see what they react to' cause it's - as….
Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I w….
We've tried to regulate things so that you at least get to go home at night and not have to pull all-nighters and see them on weekends and things. So….
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 ….
Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction..
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….
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….