Tomorrow: Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich and screenwriter Michael Arndt.
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Director Lee Unkrich, on coming up with the idea for Toy Story 3 after he accidentally threw out his wife’s stuffed animals: “About a month after we moved, [my wife] asked me if I had seen her beloved stuffed animals, and I said, ‘What box were they in?’ And she said, ‘They weren’t in a box. They were in a garbage bag.’ And my blood instantly ran ice cold. I immediately realized what had happened: I had thrown all of her stuffed animals away in the dumpster behind our building. I feel terrible to this day that that happened, but I do hope that by immortalizing that moment in the movie, that [her stuffed animals] have somehow been immortalized themselves.”](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lajow5btV61qd9dz2o1_500.jpg)
Director Lee Unkrich, on coming up with the idea for Toy Story 3 after he accidentally threw out his wife’s stuffed animals: “About a month after we moved, [my wife] asked me if I had seen her beloved stuffed animals, and I said, ‘What box were they in?’ And she said, ‘They weren’t in a box. They were in a garbage bag.’ And my blood instantly ran ice cold. I immediately realized what had happened: I had thrown all of her stuffed animals away in the dumpster behind our building. I feel terrible to this day that that happened, but I do hope that by immortalizing that moment in the movie, that [her stuffed animals] have somehow been immortalized themselves.”
We thought ‘What is it like to be a guy who is a girl’s toy?’ You’re a guy, but you’re only played with by little girls. And further, he’s just an accessory for Barbie. He doesn’t carry equal weight to Barbie. He’s really no more important than a pair of shoes or a purse or a belt to her, and we knew that he would have to have a complex.
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| — | Dream House? Lee Unkrich, Toy Story 3’s director, on coming up with Ken’s motivation. (via nprfreshair) |
I wrote Dug as a combination of all the dogs I’ve owned. Marcella, Precious, Rosy, and Ava are all in there. The distractibility of Dug (SQUIRREL!!) is based on a game I’d play with my dogs. On a hot day the dogs would be panting to cool themselves down. So, I’d jump in and pant along with them. Then I’d stop abruptly and pretend I’d seen something important. The dogs would do the same and go to attention along with me. Long pause. Then, everyone back to panting. It was hilarious. Also I’ve noticed that dogs have an amazing capacity to give love immediately to people that they meet for the first time. Hence the line “I have just met you and I love you.” Dug says this to our old man character, Carl, when they first meet. It’s a challenge to Carl accept his new “family” who loves him and needs his attention. That line was also born out of something a camper said to me when I was a camp counselor in college. The kid had just met me but his first words were “you are my counselor and I love you.
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| — | Bob Peters, co-writer and co-director of UP (via scout) |
