Up

But the best Pixar movies are always the ones that... specifically are about something greater.

WALL-E is about like environmentalism and UP is about youth and nostalgia and all of these other characteristics combined into it.

CARS is very much about lost history and legacy and all of these other pieces.

I mean, you could continue to go through it over and over and over.

Maybe just focus on him because he's unique because he's done so many things and talk about tugging on emotional heartstrings.

Good luck watching the first 10 minutes of Up without crying.

And you also mentioned something interesting about him, which I think for him holds particularly true.

He's able to establish a very specific time and a place.

I'm sure he has a whole bank of synthesizers in his home studio.

But he does love and likes to use the old-fashioned traditional orchestra as a tried and true way of providing the music that's necessary for whatever project there is.

You mentioned Up.

Then there's, of course, there's Ratatouille.

Have a lovely day.

Up you go.

And now I get to eat the pizza.

Church of the Latter-day Saints pizza.

There's so many dogs in the world.

There's almost as many dogs as there were children in the 70s.

But they did have a discussion about whether or not Up would work live action.

Because, you know, they're making so many of those Disney movies into live action.

We then have Pete Docter, who took over for John Lasseter after he was forced to step down.

Pete Docter directed Inside Out, Soul, Monsters, Inc., and Up.

Woof.

That's a pretty good-

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The idea is it's a popular pick that is probably on a lot of people's top four lists, but is just not something that we would ever really ever include.

And for me, this is Up.

Okay.

Pete Docter is the chief creative officer at Pixar.

Of course, he directed Inside Out, Up, Soul, Monsters, Inc. Pete is an endless well of creative advice and inspiration.

In fact, we just highlighted this in our chat in our recent Creativity Supercut that we put out for Labor Day weekend.

We're re-airing this today because we love it, and we think you will too.

It is a very special chat.

Enjoy my conversation with the great Pete Docter.

Your movie Up was the first time where I felt a, like a, a, a extreme emotion-

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They also used archival recordings of Mary Gibbs as Boo from Monsters, Inc. for Baby Riley.

This was originally conceived in October of 2009 by Pete Docter after he observed changes in his daughter Ellie's personality as she grew, she became more quiet and reserved, and he invited Ronnie Del Carmen as the co-director after the story supervisor work he did on Finding Nemo and Up.

They collaborated with psychologists and neuroscientists, including Paul Ekman and Dr. Keltner, apologies if I butchered your name.

And the film emphasizes ways emotions organize our thoughts and social lives, especially how sadness has a role in fostering connections.

And then people say concrete jungle, wet dream tomato.

I believe you.

caitlyn diaz was cast as riley she was touching and heartbreakingly honest um i'm gonna be honest as i was writing things about the animation the design and cinematography a lot of this stuff was difficult to follow but i'm gonna try and do my best to uh summarize this uh ralph eggleston outlined the mind and the real worlds of this film and the mind world incorporates a lot of soft surfaces saturated colors contrasting light and translucency um The world had resemblance to Up, Toy Story 3, One from the Heart from 1982, David Hockney's theatrical productions in the 1950s Broadway musicals.

They used a lot of freeform surface modeling to emphasize design aspects, and they had over 300 designs of headquarters developed.