Top 45 Andrew Stanton Quotes
#1. I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.
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#8. A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
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#9. And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
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#10. Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.
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#11. I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
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#15. Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
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#16. 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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#17. A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,
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#20. 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.
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#22. 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. It's a nice problem to have.
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#23. Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
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#25. Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
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#26. 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.
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#28. I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.
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#29. 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.
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#31. I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
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#32. That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.
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#33. I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
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#34. 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.
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#35. I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
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#36. In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.
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#37. There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.
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#38. 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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#39. John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.
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#40. Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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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#44. I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
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#45. Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.
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