I’ll be honest with you — marketing made Merida the ‘main character’, but in my mind, I always considered Merida and Elinor equal characters. Both of their arcs needed to be completed. This movie is a love story between a mother and daughter.

Brave writer and director Brenda Chapman on how she saw the story as more than just the story of a girl with a bow and a mom who just doesn’t understand

(Read the full interview about creating this script — characters, pacing, plot, the use of symbols — on Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog.)