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Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Andrew Stanton

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Andrew Stanton
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: December 3
Actor
Animator
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Voice Actor
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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There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.
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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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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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Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.
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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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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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Don't give [the audience] four give them two plus two.
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Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
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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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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 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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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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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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The best stories infuse wonder.
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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'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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A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.
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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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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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