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.

- Pete Docter

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…

- Pete Docter

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…

- Pete Docter

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…

- Pete Docter

Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction.

- Pete Docter

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 …

- Pete Docter

In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

- Pete Docter

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…

- Pete Docter

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.

- Pete Docter