Quotes from Andrew Stanton

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

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

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

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

There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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