Pete Docter Quotes

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day - and I like those things sitting next to each other.

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I think that's what real life feels like.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

Girls. You never know what they're going to think.

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great.

I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not going to be found sympathetic. It just sort of euthanizes any hope of more diverse examples of the emotional realities of people. Representing my gender, I think, "Well, I have those emotions, why don't those ever get brought to the screen so I can feel recognized?"