Pete Docter

Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at…

— 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…

— Pete Docter

The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy…

— Pete Docter

The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Pete Docter

I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people…

— 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.…

— Pete Docter

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

— Pete Docter

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

— Pete Docter

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

— Pete Docter

Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness…

— Pete Docter

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

— Pete Docter

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

So we can sit with Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton, and all the other folks and experience what the film is going…

— Pete Docter

I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.

— Pete Docter

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

— Pete Docter

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

Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys.

— Pete Docter

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to…

— Pete Docter

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that,…

— Pete Docter

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

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into…

— Pete Docter

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