Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids. — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I loved 'Dumbo.' I watched Bugs Bunny time and again. The Muppets were big, too. All of those, they have this real, not darkness but poignancy, that's what makes it stick with you. — 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
