26 | SPECIAL: Meg & Lorien INTERVIEWED By Jeff (2018 Throwback)
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Pixar's Emotional Rich Storytelling
I don't think it happens in other studios. I never sat in a room where people, we were writing to a kid. The only rule when you ended up as brain trust was, is this the best story? And so that, in that tiny little question, holds all the depth that you're talking about because the best story does root down into the human condition and what it's like to be human. It has to be funny and entertaining, of course, but really the root of it is, make when you go into that brain trust or that screening, do they feel something? Do they understand the deep motivation of the characters and why they're doing it?
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