Pixar has made some classic films including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Monsters, Inc. That made me wonder what the process was for writing a Pixar screenplay and I found this quote:
“The writing process at Pixar is very messy, very collaborative and very labor-intensive. Our films are discovered in the ‘rewriting.’ All of our films are original stories and have often started from simple group discussions between a core group of us at Pixar. Usually I’m the one who will take all the random thoughts of those meetings and turn them into a script. That could take three months or it could take a year, depending on how difficult it is to figure out the story. Then we will rewrite and rewrite scenes forever (for years), until we’re satisfied. It’s different on many of the films; that’s why there are lots of credits for the writing.”
Andrew Stanton
Interview with Jennifer M. Wood in MovieMaker Magazine
Related links:
Screenwriting the Pixar Way (Part 2)
Screenwriting the Pixar Way (Part 3)
Screenwriting the Pixar Way (Part 4)
[…] Pixar has made some classic films including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Monsters, Inc. That made me wonder what the process was for writing a Pixar screenplay and I found this quote: “The writing process at Pixar is very messy, very collaborative and very labor-intensive. Our films are discovered in the “rewriting.” All of our films are […] Original Source… […]