Cars 2

Collider: I was wondering if you could talk a little about what the title of “Story Supervisor” entails here at Pixar?

Nathan Stanton: Yeah I’ve been here at Pixar for about 15 years, and I’ve storyboarded on 7 films, but the head of story for Cars 2 is the first time I’ve done that. Basically that’s the guy that sort of supervises the other storyboard people, and there’s anywhere from 6-10 people in a storyboard group for each film, and they tend to be on the film for anywhere from 2-3 years, sometimes longer. So I’m not so much storyboarding per se, but I’m looking at all the sequences that those story people are doing, and then I’m giving notes and the director is looking at all of their sequences. When I get pages I’ll look at them and make sure and think “Okay this one guy happens to be really good at subtle acting, I’ll give him this scene. This guy’s really good at action.” That’s kind of how you would break it down. But then my job is to sort of keep track of the whole movie as it’s changing, because it’s always changing, and then keep my team informed about what’s going on and keep them moving. If there’s a separate meeting, which happens a lot, with just the director and the writer and we’re talking about the movie and the changes that need to be made, I’ll be the one in that room. So that’s kind of what it is.