What a pleasure this was, thank you, Scott. Can see why Pixar wanted to work with Arndt.
And inspiring, that you can put real stuff in there, real meaning and truth (whole lot more exciting than "live outcome indeterminate conclusions"). The recent Whedon interview
here had bit inspiring for similar reason:
"At the end of the [Buffy] episode “Family,” Tara says, basically, you always see the good in me, and when I feel bad, you make me feel better—how do you do that? And that’s not what I was trying to say. I was trying to say that you take the worst thing about me, and you make it seem like the best thing. That’s something that I got from my wife, because she does that for me all the time. She’ll take something that I’ve always sort of felt awkward about and be like, no, that makes you awesome, doofus. Ohh. How’d you do that? How’d you turn that around? I failed there. I failed. I failed America. And its territories."
He is entirely forgiven. Can't wait for his play adaptation.