Andrew Stanton Quotes

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Andrew Stanton

Profession : Director

Birth : December 3, 1965

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Stanton

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

Andrew Stanton

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

Andrew Stanton

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

Andrew Stanton

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.

Andrew Stanton

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Andrew Stanton

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.

Andrew Stanton

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.

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Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.

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I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

Andrew Stanton

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

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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.

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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.

Andrew Stanton

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.

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The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

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Great art inspires great art.

Andrew Stanton

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.

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I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

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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.

Andrew Stanton

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

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