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
Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.
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 comes.
I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
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.
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.
If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
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.
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
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.