“People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5 bill once and felt so bad because the other $ 5 bill was now going to be lonely without all the other bills I had in my wallet, you just invest these dead things with life and that is our tendency as people. So animation takes advantage of that, grabs on to it, and runs with it.” PeopleLifeRunningKidsAbleRememberFeltPersonalityProjectsAdvantageLonelyBillsTendenciesAnimationWallets Author:Pete Docter
“Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what if it was consciousness and dream production? And that would allow us to have characters that represent emotions. And that felt like, man, that's exactly what animation does best - strong, opinionated, caricatured personalities. And that just got me excited.” IfsMenMindWellsDoeCharacterDreamStrongFeltEmotionBrainConsciousnessBloodPersonalityProductionsExcitedWhat IfVesselAnimationOpinionatedBlood Vessels Author:Pete Docter
“Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early in his career identified six. That felt like a nice, manageable number of guys to design and write for. It was anger, fear, sadness, disgust, joy and surprise.” WritingDoeStillsJoyGuyFeltNumbersCareersNiceSadnessDesignSixSurpriseStudiosDisgustingDrsAnimationSan FranciscoManageablePixar Author:Pete Docter
“If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground .” IfsFeelingsPastFeltMemoriesSadnessRight NowCurrentsRecallsVery HappyFeeling SadHappy Memories Author: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 deals with loss. And I suddenly had this new revelation - it felt like to me - that those are all true, but the real, deeper reason we have emotions is to connect us together. And that felt big to me.” IfsFeelsRealReasonBigsTogetherFeltLossDealsEmotionTakenSadnessAdvantageCome UpDeeperRevelationsFairnessRippedTaken Advantage Author:Pete Docter
