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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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Andrew Stanton
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 3
Actor
Animator
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Voice Actor
Rockport
Massachusetts
Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr.
Twice
Challenge
Smart
Challenges
Whatever
Funny
Around
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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 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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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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There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.
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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'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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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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If you want someone’s attention, whisper.
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Don't give [the audience] four give them two plus two.
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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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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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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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The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
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Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.
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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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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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Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
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If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.
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A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.
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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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