With ‘Soul,’ Pixar animator finds an outlet for life’s big questions

In 2016, Pete Docter bounded on to the stage at the Academy Awards to accept an Oscar. Holding his gleaming statuette for the top animated film, the director of Pixar’s “Inside Out” proclaimed that everyone in the room was fortunate, “because, regardless of a gold man or not, we get to make stuff!”

But during his descent from that artistic Everest, the animator behind “Monsters, Inc.” and “Up” was surprised to find that he didn’t feel