Quotes from Andrew Stanton

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

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.

Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.

Great art inspires great art.

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.

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 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.

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.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

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.

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.

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.

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