I knew that there was an upcoming screening where not only were we going to show it to everybody else at the studio, we also needed to move into prod….

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….

Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what if it was consciousness and dream prod….

So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth g….

Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys..

It's like you run into this dark tunnel, trusting that somewhere there's another end to it where you're going to come out. And there's a point in the….

A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with peo….

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. ….

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations. S….

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five..

Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When we did "Toy Story," that was an all….

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine wh….

And it's about a three-month process every screening. And that way we have seven or eight chances at the film before we have to actually build the mo….

The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. ….

It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, an….

Well, the film initially - we had decided to pair joy with fear because I don't know about you - for me fear was a major motivator in junior high. So….

Yeah, to bring families together I need to go away..

However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we start….

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..