Andrew Stanton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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 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.”

“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.”

“We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.”