I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience. — 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
In a regular theatre, you'd be kind of moving your eye from one character 5 feet over to the right on the… — 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
'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent.… — 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
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
There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
We found some scientists think that there are basically three emotions. Others went up to 27. Others had 16. Some were in… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
