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Pete Docter

Profession : Director

Birth : October 9, 1968

I guess different brains work in different ways.

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

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

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When I was in fifth grade - so, about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark. And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult and kind of started me, I think, on my path to animation.

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When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

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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 all there.

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There was a guy that I got to know pretty well - Joe Grant. He was one of the creators of Dumbo and worked side-by-side with Disney. Being a total Disney nerd, I was obsessed with asking him questions. He was 92 when I got to know him.

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

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We all want happiness in our life. I mean, there are so many books on, like, how to be happy and what you need for happiness, and you want that for your kid, too; you want your kid to be happy.

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With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.

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I love IMAX.

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It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.

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At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they're just used to our process now where it's a discussion; it's a discovery. It's not individual artists going and fussing off by themselves in isolation and then handing their work in.

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Back in the days before the Internet, there was no place to put a short film, so Mike Gribble and Spike Decker had this festival of animation. My student films got selected.

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'Toy Story' really felt like just a bunch of guys working in their garage for fun. When it came out and people liked it, it was mind-blowing.

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I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people more specifically, but then, you also give them a longer runway to be able to apply the knowledge that they have learned to subsequent work.

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I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

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I don't think of 'Monsters, Inc.' as existing in the same space as Carl Frederickson from 'Up,' or whatever, you know? They seem like completely different universes to me.

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There's no way for me to anticipate what people will like or not like.

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