Andrew Stanton Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Great art inspires great art.”

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