Andrew Stanton Quotes

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
Andrew Stanton

Funny, Humor, Knew

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Andrew Stanton

Fear, Loneliness, Whether

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
Andrew Stanton

Few, Ideas, Meant

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

Art, Chaos, System

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.
Andrew Stanton

Life, Movies, Human

Great art inspires great art.
Andrew Stanton

Great, Art, Inspires

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
Andrew Stanton

Life, Before, Computer

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.
Andrew Stanton

Mean, Thinking, Often

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
Andrew Stanton

Someone, Away, Marketing

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.
Andrew Stanton

Future, Movies, Before

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.
Andrew Stanton

Artist, Musician, Lines

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.
Andrew Stanton

Movies, Mind, Enough

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.
Andrew Stanton

Family, Movies, Kids

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
Andrew Stanton

Good, Book, Honor

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.
Andrew Stanton

Success, Nature, Parents

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.
Andrew Stanton

Time, Power, Alone

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
Andrew Stanton

Story, Felt, Dig

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
Andrew Stanton

Yourself, Everything, Trying

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.'
Andrew Stanton

Fact, Opening, Divinely

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
Andrew Stanton

Guy, Reluctant, Sequels

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.
Andrew Stanton

Work, Home, Off

The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
Andrew Stanton

Childhood, Moments, Destroy

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. It's a nice problem to have.
Andrew Stanton

Nice, Working, Same

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.
Andrew Stanton

Idea, Ideas, Worked

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.
Andrew Stanton

History, Learn, Times

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 3, 1965

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