How many years ago did you first get the idea for the story of The Incredibles?
Twelve, actually. The reason I know is the baby in the movie is named after my middle son, Jack. And when he was a toddler, we called him Jack-Jack. And he’s twelve. Often times you have an idea and it’s only the kernel, and you sit with it a while and then you add a little something to it. You don’t really know when it started. That’s the only way I know. Otherwise, I’d go, “I don’t know, sometime in the ’90s.” When did Pixar come into the picture? In 2000. They had been talking with me about coming up there since Bug’s Life. And we had just kept talking because I really admired their films. And when I finished Iron Giant, I knew that this was the movie that I wanted to do next, and I pitched it to them and they got it immediately and said, “When do we start?” So it was great. How many children do you have? I have three boys. What did they think of The Incredibles when they first saw it? Oh, they were just going crazy. I was smart enough to not show them very much for years, which was
