Does Disney act only as distributor for Pixar?
No, Disney is more of a partner than a distributor. Pixar creates and produces the films but we work with Disney’s animation department in a creative sense of delivering the film to the general audiences. Disney handles all of the marketing and the distribution of the film but we work with consumer products for publishing purposes of various items from our films. How did Pixar ramp up from five minute short films to 90 minute feature films? We didn’t know what we didn’t know in the beginning – the company just said ‘Let’s do it.’ It’s like what Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland did: ‘Hey, let’s put on a show… my dad’s got a barn!’ We just came up with an idea and we started working on it, working on it, revising it, and just trusting our instincts. We listened to the creative opinions of Tom Schumacher, the head of Disney’s Animation department, and out of all of that came Toy Story. It was a lot of hard work for four years by refining and refining and refining the story. Were you ever
