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

Andrew Stanton

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Andrew Stanton
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: December 3
Actor
Animator
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Voice Actor
Rockport
Massachusetts
Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr.
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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.
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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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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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Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.
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I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldnt 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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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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The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
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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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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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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'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 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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The best stories infuse wonder.
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Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
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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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Don't give [the audience] four give them two plus two.
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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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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've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
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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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