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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.
Andrew Stanton
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Andrew Stanton
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 3
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Rockport
Massachusetts
Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr.
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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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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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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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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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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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The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
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The best stories infuse wonder.
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Don't give [the audience] four give them two plus two.
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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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A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.
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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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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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I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
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I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
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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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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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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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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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I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
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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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