My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music…

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

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

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

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

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

— Pete Docter

People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5 bill once…

— Pete Docter

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

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

'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…

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It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a…

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And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there…

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If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be…

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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…

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

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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