Pixar's Pete Docter: Art is essential
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Pete Docter accepted the Oscar for best animated feature film for "Up" at the 82nd Academy Awards in March 2010.
Mark J. Terrill | AP 2010
Pete Docter says movies are art, and all art is storytelling. He believes art is as essential as breathing and eating.
The Minnesota native is a writer, director and animator at Pixar Studios. His film "Up" was nominated for six Academy Awards and won for Best Animated Feature Film. His new movie is "Inside Out."
Docter was a featured speaker at the Westminster Town Hall Forum in Minneapolis, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015.
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