But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I knew that there was an upcoming screening where not only were we going to show it to everybody else at the… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
They're expecting us to make mistakes, and they've set up a process that allows us to correct for that and do it… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun… — 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
Each one of the films get built up and strengthened and reinforced, and we're not afraid to rip stuff out and redo… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Back in the days before the Internet, there was no place to put a short film, so Mike Gribble and Spike Decker… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I mean, I've - these other films were flukes. I don't know what I'm doing. I should just quit. What would I… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And… — 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
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
The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
And it sort of hit me that the very subject matter of the film that I'm dealing with is the key to… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Well, the film initially - we had decided to pair joy with fear because I don't know about you - for me… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
So we can sit with Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton, and all the other folks and experience what the film is going… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in… — 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
