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19 quotes by Pete Docter

Peter Hans "Pete" Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer and voice actor from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing the films Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Up (2009) and as a key figure and collaborator in Pixar Animation Studios. The A. V. Club has called him "almost universally successful". He has been nominated for six Oscars (one win thus far for Up -- Best Animated Feature),...
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I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And... →

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In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature... →

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'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... →

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'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for a glass of water... →

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'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're... →

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I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who... →

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Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

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I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be... →

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In a regular theatre, you'd be kind of moving your eye from one character 5 feet over to the right on the cut. In IMAX, suddenly that's like... →

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I love to go to the airports and just put on, like, dark glasses, so nobody can tell I'm staring at them, and just draw people.

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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.

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When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

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It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation... →

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