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
The best stories infuse wonder,
Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.
I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,
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.
I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.
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.