I’d been a fan of Pixar pre-fatherhood. I’ve always appreciated them and their approach to animation and storytelling. And

I’d been a fan of Pixar pre-fatherhood. I’ve always appreciated them and their approach to animation and storytelling. And that was kind of the key. We had actually written down a list of potential collaborators that we might be intrigued by rather than just waiting for the phone to ring. In fact, we proactively kind of write who we’d love to knock on their doors and just say, “If you ever had anything appropriate…” But being a parent kind of adjusts all the emotional dials in ways that are hard to imagine what life was like before. I was in my 40s when I started having kids, and I’ve got five now. Now, I can find myself crying during an insurance commercial. It certainly has changed my sensitivity a lot.

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