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
The best stories infuse wonder,
Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.
I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
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.
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.
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.
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.