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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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Andrew Stanton
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 3
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Rockport
Massachusetts
Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr.
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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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