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
It'll look even better now for somebody at home than it ever did for anybody seeing it for the first time in the theater.
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.
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.
It's like trying to turn an aircraft carrier around. It takes a long time for things to stop, so we took advantage of working very fast and redid a large part of the picture.
The big myth is that we want to make the best computer-animated movie in the world. And it's like, no. We want to make the best movie we can make.
You end up using your own instincts. You end up having the guts to do what you should have done all along. After a while, we needed to give (the movie) back our voice. We went too far in listening to every single thing (Disney) told us to do.
A lot of studios talk about a 12-to-1 ratio -- they come in with 12 ideas and one of them makes it,
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.