Andrew Stanton Quotes

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

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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.

The best stories infuse wonder,

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I've never written for kids… I'm just trying to tap into the kid in myself & just go with my taste.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Story telling is joke telling.

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.

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.

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

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

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.

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

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.

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