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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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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 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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Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
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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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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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Don't give [the audience] four give them two plus two.
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Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
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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'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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Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.
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I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
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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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I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
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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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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'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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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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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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Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their 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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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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