Jan Pinkava

So overall, I'm really very happy and grateful that it turned out to be such a successful movie.

So overall, I'm really very happy and grateful that it turned out to be such a successful movie.

So overall, I'm really very happy and grateful that it turned out to be such a successful movie.

I'm now here in Germany, of all places, at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in the Animation Institute. What is the primary mission? Is it education? Is it outreach? It's filmmaking. It's very much learning by doing. It's about let's make movies and fail miserably sometimes and succeed wonderfully sometimes. There's very little sitting and cogitating and theorizing and philosophizing.

I'm now here in Germany, of all places, at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in the Animation Institute. What is the primary mission? Is it education? Is it outreach? It's filmmaking. It's very much learning by doing. It's about let's make movies and fail miserably sometimes and succeed wonderfully sometimes. There's very little sitting and cogitating and theorizing and philosophizing.

I'm now here in Germany, of all places, at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in the Animation Institute. What is the primary mission? Is it education? Is it outreach? It's filmmaking. It's very much learning by doing. It's about let's make movies and fail miserably sometimes and succeed wonderfully sometimes. There's very little sitting and cogitating and theorizing and philosophizing.

It's about practical doing and a lot about working together because the bigger the project, the more of a team sport filmmaking is.

It's about practical doing and a lot about working together because the bigger the project, the more of a team sport filmmaking is.

It's about practical doing and a lot about working together because the bigger the project, the more of a team sport filmmaking is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did. If you've got to do it, you've got to do it. You'll figure out a way somehow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did. If you've got to do it, you've got to do it. You'll figure out a way somehow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did. If you've got to do it, you've got to do it. You'll figure out a way somehow.

really to help us get along with each other. There are lots of beautiful examples of stories like this. Billy Elliot, for instance, that's about a minor son in 1980s strike-ridden Northern England who has to figure out how to be a ballet dancer, which is the most unmanly thing he can possibly be doing in the middle of this. So in a way, Ratatouille is like ballet dancing with Nazis.

really to help us get along with each other. There are lots of beautiful examples of stories like this. Billy Elliot, for instance, that's about a minor son in 1980s strike-ridden Northern England who has to figure out how to be a ballet dancer, which is the most unmanly thing he can possibly be doing in the middle of this. So in a way, Ratatouille is like ballet dancing with Nazis.

really to help us get along with each other. There are lots of beautiful examples of stories like this. Billy Elliot, for instance, that's about a minor son in 1980s strike-ridden Northern England who has to figure out how to be a ballet dancer, which is the most unmanly thing he can possibly be doing in the middle of this. So in a way, Ratatouille is like ballet dancing with Nazis.

We're not only doing the thing you're not supposed to be doing, you're doing it with people who are ready to kill you as soon as they see you. I was immediately drawn to the character of Remy as stuck between these two worlds. You know, he's going somewhere where he cannot possibly be, the kitchen where everyone just... from the get-go, hates him, will kill him.

We're not only doing the thing you're not supposed to be doing, you're doing it with people who are ready to kill you as soon as they see you. I was immediately drawn to the character of Remy as stuck between these two worlds. You know, he's going somewhere where he cannot possibly be, the kitchen where everyone just... from the get-go, hates him, will kill him.

We're not only doing the thing you're not supposed to be doing, you're doing it with people who are ready to kill you as soon as they see you. I was immediately drawn to the character of Remy as stuck between these two worlds. You know, he's going somewhere where he cannot possibly be, the kitchen where everyone just... from the get-go, hates him, will kill him.

And on the other side, he's betraying his people, his family. He wants to work with the enemy, with the people who will kill us if they see us. So he's stuck there on his own. Ratatouille as an idea, as a story, it's an allegory. What's it about, really? It's not about rats and cooking. It's about prejudice. It's about...

And on the other side, he's betraying his people, his family. He wants to work with the enemy, with the people who will kill us if they see us. So he's stuck there on his own. Ratatouille as an idea, as a story, it's an allegory. What's it about, really? It's not about rats and cooking. It's about prejudice. It's about...