Marci: With all of the awards Pixar has won for it?s previous films, why is this year?s
nomination for Best Animated Feature Film so important to you?
John: First of all, I am so excited that
the Academy now has a category for Best Animated Feature Film. Prior to that, animation would only get honored
through special Oscars. I did win a special Oscar for Toy Story as the first computer animated feature film. But
it was kind of for that. It wasn?t for the film or for the directing of the film. What?s so exciting about this,
being nominated for Best Animated Feature Film, it?s about the movie as a whole. Even thought my name is on it,
it?s for everybody who made it. And I?m so excited, because also with my new role as Chief Creative Officer of
Disney Animation as well as Pixar Animation ? since Disney and Pixar merged last year - I may not be directing
another movie for quite a while, because I?m overseeing all the other movies. So this is a nice chance.
Alberta: I?m a volunteer at the California Academy of Sciences? and we have a beautiful
two-story coral reef. And one day, a little boy about 3-years old, he let out a yell, ?Mom! Mom! Quick, it?s
Nemo!? And he saw the yellow fish in the coral reef. I really wish I could have recorded his excitement.
John: That?s why I make the movies. Often times, people think, yeah film makers make movies for the awards or
for the take at the box office. I do it to entertain audiences. It?s every day of my career, every day we work on
a movie, I think of the audience. I love stories like that.