The head of Pixar studios has admitted that LGBT storylines may no longer have a place in its films.

'We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,' Pete Docter told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday.

Docter was in the midst of explaining the rationale behind a major re-do he ordered on Pixar's 2025 flop 'Elio' in 2023. 

The initial cut contained a scene where the young main character imagined himself raising a child with a man, Docter said.

The 57-year-old said such scenes essentially force parents to have conversations they aren't ready to have with their children - a conclusion he came to after a string of failures, he admitted.

The 'Monsters, Inc.' director more recently made a decision to remove references to a character being transgender in the 2025 Disney+ series 'Win or Lose.'

Such moves came at odds with a culture that's been steadily forming within the Disney subsidiary, which has taken many measures to support LGBT employees.

Staff, however, penned a letter to then Disney boss Bob Chapek over a lack of pushback to Florida's so-called 'Don't Say Gay Bill' in 2022, angered at the prospect of LGBT-related topics being limited in younger students' classrooms at the time. 

Docter, during his conversation with the Journal, appeared more interested in the future.

'As time's gone on, I realized my job is to make sure the films appeal to everybody,' he admitted, adding that Pixar will remain 'useful' only if it continues to make great movies.  

Docter joined Pixar as a 21-year-old in 1990 and has directed hits like 'Up!' and 2021 Oscar winner 'Soul.'

However, most of the company's films since he took the reins in 2018 have been unimpressive.

Several have also been subject to last-minute changes that removed progressive storylines, the Journal piece pointed out.

One of the first original films Pixar made under Docter, 2021's 'Luca', had a same-sex storyline removed before still surfacing as a flop.

The following year's Lightyear - a Toy Story spinoff - retained a same-sex relationship and had an on-screen kiss between the two characters, which led to it being banned in many countries in the Middle East.

Docter admitted such moves were not good business. He told the Journal that such scenes were often the work of directors, inspired by their own life experiences.

This led to him calling an internal, all-hands meeting within Pixar in 2023 - a summit that paved the way for hits like 2024's 'Inside Out 2' and this year's already successful 'Hoppers,' he and other staffers interviewed explained.

Docter told attendees at the time they'd flubbed with so many autobiographical films, and needed more movies that appealed to a broader audience.

Pixar staff who spoke to the paper for the piece framed it as Docter's 'come to Jesus' speech.

'Hoppers', meanwhile, opened No. 1 at the box office.

'I'd rather die trying to make something that we genuinely believe in,' Docter said, emphasizing his devotion to such releases.