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This past week, director Pete Docter was on hand at a UCLA film class where he spoke about the production process in animation. Students were given an 'inside' look into the making of his newest film,
Inside Out. Following the lecture, Docter sat down with Rebecca Sarvady with
The Daily Bruin for a quick Q&A - where he shared a heartwarming moment from one of the
Inside Out technical directors.
Daily Bruin: How did you make a children’s movie with such a potentially serious and dark subject matter?
Pete Docter: Kids are way smarter than most people think. On this film we had to simplify things for the adults, but the kids got it. In fact, we had the crew bring their kids in just to test the film because we were concerned – abstract thought and all these things in the film are pretty complex. The kids got everything – in fact, they explained it back to us better than I almost did. The next day, this is sort of a bonus, one of our technical directors said, “I got to tell you this story: My son has been taking swimming lessons, and he’s been afraid to dive off the diving board. Yesterday, after watching the film, he finally did it and jumped off. I said, ‘Wow, how did you do it?’ and he said ‘Well, I just felt like Fear was driving, so I asked him to step aside.’”
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