Best 39 quotes of Andrew Stanton on MyQuotes

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

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

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

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

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

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?

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

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

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

No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.

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.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

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.

Story telling is joke telling.