Hehe the directors I love from The Pixar Story:
John Lasseter (Toy Story 1, 2; A Bug’s Life; Cars 1, 2) - The OG, the head honcho, the one who started it all. Look at his desk!!!
Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.; Up) - The only one so far to create this adjacent fantasy world of monsters (my favorite kind of world). Then he became the first to make me abandon all pretense and weep in the first act.
Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo; WALL-E) - He made the ocean and outer space look amazing. He also made me fall in love with a sea turtle named Crush. That is probably why he’s my favorite.
Brad Bird (The Incredibles; Ratatouille) - The outsider, the best out of the four in my experience because both of his films have ONE MOMENT where I, without fail, tear up with emotional overload. EVERY DAMN TIME, no matter how many times I’ve seen them, and I’ve seen Ratatouille A LOT. These moments are:
1)When Helen Parr, on the plane with Dash and Violet and missiles homing in, yells on the radio, “Abort, abort, there are children aboard, say again, there are children aboard this plane!” and that scene cut to Mirage’s face. *EMOTION*
2)When Anton Ego takes a bite of ratatouille and the camera zooms into his eyes and his memory as a little boy in the doorway, crying because he fell off his bike, and his mother makes him feel better with some ratatouille. *TEARS*