The Best TED Talk on Film/Story by Pixar Icon Andrew Stanton

The above video is about 20 minutes of pure anatomy of how to make story work. It's not broken up into Step 1, Step 2, etc. but what Stanton does so brilliantly is tells the audience a story about stories. Leave it to someone from Pixar to tell the world how they do what they do in the form of how they do it. Brilliant.

P.S. If you didn't see John Carter (U.S. box office shows not many of you did) it's not as bad as you might think and actually holds a lot of great moments. I mention this because everyone is quick to point out a misstep from anyone involved with Pixar and though Stanton's film was considered a huge flop, I would put that more on Disney's marketing arm than the director himself.