Andrew Stanton pitched his idea and story to Pixar head John Lasseter in an hour-long session, using elaborate visual aids and character voices. At the end of it, an exhausted Stanton asked Lasseter what he thought, to which Lasseter replied, "You had me at 'fish.'"
Director Andrew Stanton did the voice of Crush, the sea turtle. Stanton never intended to do the voice of Crush, only providing the voice for the film's rough cut, but when it proved popular in test screenings, he decided to do it for the final film. Stanton recorded all of Crush's dialogue lying on his couch in his office.
This movie surpassed The Lion King (1994) to become the highest-grossing animated film. The Lion King (1994) producer Don Hahn called director Andrew Stanton to congratulate him and said, "It's about time."
Pixar developed a realistic look of the surface water but had to make it look fake so people wouldn't think it was actual footage of the ocean surface.
As of September 2015, Finding Nemo (2003) is the best-selling DVD of all time in the world, with 41 million copies sold.
Rove McManus: the crab threatened by Dory. Rove was the biggest late night talk show host in Australia at the time, with his show Rove Live (2000).