Interview with Comedian/Filmmaker Dane Cook

Dane Cook has three movies in the works - Employee of the Month, Mr Brooks and Dan in Real Life - yet he still had time to talk about his upcoming documentary series, Tourgasm, while hanging out at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. Cook's the director, producer and star of Tourgasm, a nine episode series edited from 450 hours of film. How did Cook, one of Time Magazine's Top 100 most influential people, figure out what stays and what goes? He talks about that and more in this interview straight from the red blue carpet:

Dane Cook on Tourgasm, Dan in Real Life with Steve Carell, and the Time Magazine Honor

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Behind the Scenes of Cars with Director John Lasseter
Unlike the other Pixar films, Cars takes place in a totally make-believe world and not a world within our world. Director Lasseter explained why: "It was really just a choice of looking at cars being alive. We thought, 'Well, we can either choose to tell a story with humans in it or do it without.' We thought that doing it without might be a bit more of a challenge, but we kind of thought that it could be more fun that way. So we chose to develop the story as a world where cars are alive and there’s no humans.

We had a lot of fun thinking what humans need and what cars need and try to find the parallels. The obvious one is a restaurant to a human is like a gas station to a car, so it became one and the same. We tried to give it the feeling of both. Tire store to a car is like a men’s shoe store, right? I don’t know if you noticed that when Luigi had McQueen try on the tires that there’s a patch of asphalt in front of the mirror so you can see how good the tire looks on the asphalt. We have fun that way in really thinking through this world." Read On...

Director John Lasseter Discusses the Inspiration for Cars

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