Quotes by Andrew Stanton

About Andrew Stanton:

Andrew Stanton is 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 (1998) (as co-director), Finding Nemo (2003), and WALL-E (2008), and his first live-action film, John Carter (2012). He also co-wrote all three Toy Story films and Monsters, Inc. (2001)
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I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure t...

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Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

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Great art inspires great art.

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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.

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Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

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There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

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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 ou...

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I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

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Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

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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.

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Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

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I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

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Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.

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There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper com...

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We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

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I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

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I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

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I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

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Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

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The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

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Author Bio

  • NameAndrew Stanton
  • DescriptionAmerican film director
  • BornDecember 3, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Actor
  • AwardsAnnie Award