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
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.
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.
He was one of the major players (at Pixar), and we have yet to process what that will mean over time.
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.
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.
Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.
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.
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.