00:00Toy Story 5 shows the clash between traditional toys and technology without filters.
00:08Are today's kids ready for a hard truth?
00:12Yeah, they're ready. They're more ready than we are, I think. The kids are ready.
00:16I feel like the kids, I don't know, I feel like we're at a point now where kids are ready
00:20to kind of reckon with their complicated relationships with technology.
00:25I think all of our relationships with our tech, I mean my relationship with my phone is very complicated.
00:30And I think that that is true for kids as well. I feel like I have kids and I feel
00:36like they're even starting to talk about a nostalgia for kind of a period before tech in their lives because
00:42they've only known tech.
00:44So I think they're ready to kind of start talking about what that relationship looks like and where there could
00:50be some optimism with it.
00:52I think right now there's some exhaustion, but I think there might be some optimism going forward.
00:56Is the era of toys truly over?
01:00Yes.
01:01No!
01:03I just want to scare people into seeing them.
01:05I know, I know. It's going to be quoted. Pete Docter says, era of toys is over.
01:09That's right. No, I think it's always going to, they're always going to be toys.
01:13I think kids are born with this inherent need to understand things and the way to do that is to
01:19play through it, to work it out in your imagination or in real life with physical things.
01:24And yeah, there's technology that's sort of grabbing for our attention. But I think it is part of who we
01:32are as human beings to need to play.
01:34In Pixar, how do you defend creativity from AI and AI scares you?
01:44I don't think it scares us. I think it's just kind of an unknown. I think it's a lot of
01:48mystery around what AI, I think it's such a broad state. It's such a broad topic.
01:53You know, Andrew is probably, I'm just going to quote him because he said it and it's a good statement,
01:58which is like, it's like fire. It's like, how do you feel about fire?
02:01It's like, well, I feel like it could be great in the sense that it kind of keeps me warm
02:05and it has a benefit, but it also can burn the house down.
02:08So it's really about how you use it, kind of how the balance of it. And I think at this
02:13point, we're just so unsure about what it is, how it's going to be useful.
02:17I think we're open to it, but I also feel like we're very kind of, our philosophy on technology has
02:22always been that it has to be in service of the creative and of the artist.
02:26I feel like in the last three, four months, a lot of the sheen has come off the lows, like
02:31people are starting to understand, oh, there are the limits. Here's how we can, it's not going to work for
02:37this. And so we're starting to figure it out.
02:40Are you working on Toy Story 6?
02:44No, I'm sorry to tell you, but we, that's always been the case. I think we've always said, like, we're
02:50going to treat each film as a standalone.
02:52And we never think about the next one when we're making one, which maybe is stupid, but we've always kind
02:58of not been smart enough to think about what it might be one, two, and three.
03:03I think we're always just kind of treating one film at a time.
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