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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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Andrew Stanton
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 3
Actor
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Rockport
Massachusetts
Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr.
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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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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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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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I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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