Rashida Jones says Pixar’s Andrew Stanton gave her the best writing advice

But while that middle storyline is the most familiar and down-to-earth of the movie’s three threads, it’s still ambitious. Stanton and screenwriter Colby Day track Claire and Greg from what seems to be their first awkward drunken hookup through decades of life achievements, discoveries, and breakthroughs — and eventually, through death, which Jones considered a particular challenge to play out.