Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stantonis an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Pixar's A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, and WALL-E, and the live-action film, Disney's John Carter. He also co-wrote all three Toy Story films and Monsters, Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 December 1965
CityRockport, MA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.
The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.
I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.
I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.
If you want someone’s attention, whisper.
In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.
The best stories infuse wonder,
I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.