Andrew Stanton Quotes
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Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.
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The best stories infuse wonder.
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A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.
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There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.
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The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
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Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
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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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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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No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.
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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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I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
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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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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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If you want someone’s attention, whisper.
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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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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.
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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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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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I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?
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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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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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I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
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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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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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Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
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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'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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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.
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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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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.
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