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.
Surpassed Disney's own The Lion King (1994) as the highest-grossing animated film. The Lion King producer Don Hahn called director Andrew Stanton to congratulate him, saying, "It's about time." Finding Nemo held the record for only a year until surpassed by Shrek 2 (2004).
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.
Rendering a frame (at a resolution of 1600x900), which lasted about 1/24th of a second, in the film, could take up to four days because of the complexity of the underwater environment, with sunlight coming through the water and hitting fish scales.
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).