A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys. — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
The idea kind of started with me just thinking about what would be fun to see in animation, you know - what… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
And usually I'm not watching the screen. I'm kind of sitting and looking off to the side, spying on people to see… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
And it's about a three-month process every screening. And that way we have seven or eight chances at the film before we… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When… — Pete Docter Copy Share
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… — Pete Docter Copy Share
The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to… — Pete Docter Copy Share
The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is basically like… — Pete Docter Copy Share
People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5 bill once… — Pete Docter Copy Share
Little kids definitely have desires and jealousy. There are some emotions that don't show up at birth, but by three or four, they are… — Pete Docter Copy Share
I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people more specifically,… — Pete Docter Copy Share
'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has… — Pete Docter Copy Share
It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a… — Pete Docter Copy Share
And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there… — Pete Docter Copy Share
If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be… — Pete Docter Copy Share
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… — Pete Docter Copy Share
I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time… — Pete Docter Copy Share
