Occupation: Film Director Birth: October 9, 1968
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys..
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….
Yeah, to bring families together I need to go away..
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….
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 sort of hit me that the very subject matter of the film that I'm dealing with is the key to the most important thing in our lives, and that's ….
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 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….
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….
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….
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….
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 ….
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….