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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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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.
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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'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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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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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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The best stories infuse wonder.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
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Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
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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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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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