There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It’s a terrible feeling. Dan Scanlon Read Quote
People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard – if they’re making a sequel – to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story. Dan Scanlon Read Quote
I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios. Dan Scanlon Read Quote
I don’t think at Pixar we’d ever make something that was too scary for general audiences. Dan Scanlon Read Quote
I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something. Dan Scanlon Read Quote
The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn’t get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things – dealing with failures and missteps in life – and it’s something that’s so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids’ movies. Dan Scanlon Read Quote