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
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,
There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.
The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
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.
Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.
Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.
Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
We're not supervised. We're sort of allowed, like an independent filmmaker, to do what we want. You don't get that freedom anywhere else. And this is the only studio outside of Disney, when Walt Disney ran it, where an artist runs the whole place. Here, it's John Lasseter, and that trickles down.
A lot of studios talk about a 12-to-1 ratio -- they come in with 12 ideas and one of them makes it,
He was one of the major players (at Pixar), and we have yet to process what that will mean over time.