Jan Pinkava

We spoke to a bunch of people with different attitudes to rats. For instance, I remember the national president of the Rat Fanciers Association of the United States, the people who like to keep rats as pets. She was wonderful. She was really insightful and knowledgeable about who rats are as characters, real rats.

We spoke to a bunch of people with different attitudes to rats. For instance, I remember the national president of the Rat Fanciers Association of the United States, the people who like to keep rats as pets. She was wonderful. She was really insightful and knowledgeable about who rats are as characters, real rats.

One of the lovely things she told us was, there's the old cliche that dogs look up to you and cats look down on you. If you have a rat as a pet, that's a peer-to-peer relationship. A rat looks you in the eye and doesn't feel inferior or superior. It's just, you are like me. I'm like you. That's so interesting. Do you believe that to be true? You know, she certainly has that expertise, definitely.

One of the lovely things she told us was, there's the old cliche that dogs look up to you and cats look down on you. If you have a rat as a pet, that's a peer-to-peer relationship. A rat looks you in the eye and doesn't feel inferior or superior. It's just, you are like me. I'm like you. That's so interesting. Do you believe that to be true? You know, she certainly has that expertise, definitely.

One of the lovely things she told us was, there's the old cliche that dogs look up to you and cats look down on you. If you have a rat as a pet, that's a peer-to-peer relationship. A rat looks you in the eye and doesn't feel inferior or superior. It's just, you are like me. I'm like you. That's so interesting. Do you believe that to be true? You know, she certainly has that expertise, definitely.

One of the things that makes it believable to me is that in the history of organized human life, rats have been right there with us all along. What else did you learn about rats? Biologically, they have some interesting traits, like rats are incontinent. They don't know when to not do it. That's just being a rat, right? You poop and pee whenever.

One of the things that makes it believable to me is that in the history of organized human life, rats have been right there with us all along. What else did you learn about rats? Biologically, they have some interesting traits, like rats are incontinent. They don't know when to not do it. That's just being a rat, right? You poop and pee whenever.

One of the things that makes it believable to me is that in the history of organized human life, rats have been right there with us all along. What else did you learn about rats? Biologically, they have some interesting traits, like rats are incontinent. They don't know when to not do it. That's just being a rat, right? You poop and pee whenever.

So actually keeping a real rat on your head would not be such a good idea.

So actually keeping a real rat on your head would not be such a good idea.

So actually keeping a real rat on your head would not be such a good idea.

No, no, I didn't seem to have a good story point there for our main character, the guy in the kitchen doing the cooking, to be doing that too much.

No, no, I didn't seem to have a good story point there for our main character, the guy in the kitchen doing the cooking, to be doing that too much.

No, no, I didn't seem to have a good story point there for our main character, the guy in the kitchen doing the cooking, to be doing that too much.

Yeah. I was around a long part of the way, not right to the very end, and that's normal for the film industry. I was a first-time feature director coming up with an idea and getting it made, which in the grand scheme of things is a pretty great result. And I have tremendous respect for Brad Bird as a writer and director.

Yeah. I was around a long part of the way, not right to the very end, and that's normal for the film industry. I was a first-time feature director coming up with an idea and getting it made, which in the grand scheme of things is a pretty great result. And I have tremendous respect for Brad Bird as a writer and director.

Yeah. I was around a long part of the way, not right to the very end, and that's normal for the film industry. I was a first-time feature director coming up with an idea and getting it made, which in the grand scheme of things is a pretty great result. And I have tremendous respect for Brad Bird as a writer and director.

And he took great pains when it was time to take over to talk to me and the crew and especially to sit down and listen to what my intentions had been making the story and what I was hoping for and to really understand where the whole thing came from and what it meant so that he could then take it his way, which you have to do as a director.

And he took great pains when it was time to take over to talk to me and the crew and especially to sit down and listen to what my intentions had been making the story and what I was hoping for and to really understand where the whole thing came from and what it meant so that he could then take it his way, which you have to do as a director.

And he took great pains when it was time to take over to talk to me and the crew and especially to sit down and listen to what my intentions had been making the story and what I was hoping for and to really understand where the whole thing came from and what it meant so that he could then take it his way, which you have to do as a director.