Pete Docter Net Worth

Pete Docter's Quotes

• I loved 'Dumbo.' I watched Bugs Bunny time and again. The Muppets were big, too. All of those, they have this real, not darkness but poignancy, that's what makes it stick with you.
• I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.
• I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.
• It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.
• I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

Interesting Facts about Pete Docter

1. Comes from a very musical family, plays several instruments.
2. Parents are Dr. Dave and Dr. Rita Docter.
3. Grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota.
4. Younger sister Kirsten Docter plays viola for the Cavani String Quartet.
5. Youngest sister Kari Docter plays cello for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
6. Pete's father has German ancestry, while Pete's maternal grandparents, George Anton Kanne and Ida Josephine Margrethe Frederiksen, were Danish.
7. As of 2015, all three of his films have focused on the main protagonist protecting a child character in one way or another. (Sully protecting Boo in Monsters, Inc. (2001), Carl protecting Russell in Up (2009), and Joy & the other emotions working to guide Riley in Inside Out (2015).
8. He started at Pixar at the age of 21, and began work the day after his college graduation, the tenth employee the company hired, and its third animator.
9. Has a son Nicholas and a daughter Elie.