Andrew Stanton Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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. — Andrew Stanton

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. — 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. — Andrew Stanton

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. — Andrew Stanton

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

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig. — Andrew Stanton

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do. — Andrew Stanton

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system. — Andrew Stanton

If you want someone's attention, whisper. — Andrew Stanton

There's a lot of downsides to social media, but one of the nice things is that you can cut through all the BS and go straight to the person and ask them directly. I think that's a wonderful thing. I love talking to people who are true fans or who have a true love of cinema, and so if I can talk to them directly, great. — Andrew Stanton

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie. — Andrew Stanton

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. — Andrew Stanton

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. — Andrew Stanton

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. — Andrew Stanton

The best stories infuse wonder, — Andrew Stanton

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it. — Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. — Andrew Stanton

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story. — 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.' — Andrew Stanton

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

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it. — Andrew Stanton

John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true. — 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

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it. — Andrew Stanton

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die. — Andrew Stanton

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

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

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty. — Andrew Stanton

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two. — Andrew Stanton

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care. — Andrew Stanton

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. — Andrew Stanton

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. — Andrew Stanton

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

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story, — Andrew Stanton

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. — 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. — 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. — Andrew Stanton

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar. — Andrew Stanton

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. — Andrew Stanton

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

I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me. — Andrew Stanton

Story telling is joke telling. — 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

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

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