Andrew Stanton Quotes

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• The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

  Andrew Stanton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Stories

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• 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.

  Andrew Stanton

  Mean, Facts, Plot

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Stories, Heard

  "What Are The Clues To A Good Story?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 7, 2013.

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• The best stories infuse wonder.

  Andrew Stanton

  Stories, Wonder

  "What Are The Clues To A Good Story?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 7, 2013.

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Art, Inspire, Doe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Stories

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Two

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• If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

  Andrew Stanton

  Attention, Want, Ifs

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Running, Strong, Stories

  "The clues to a great story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2012.

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• Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

  Andrew Stanton

  Drama, Anticipation, Uncertainty

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Wheels, Mature, Enough

  "The clues to a great story". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Thinking, Giving, Marketing

  "Wall-E is Hollywood's new star, so why is he causing an eco row?" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2008.

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Meals, Want, Storytelling

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Loneliness, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Andrew Stanton

  Fall, Phones, Cells

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Art, Needs, Chaos

  "Second-Act Twist". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 17, 2011.

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• 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.

  Andrew Stanton

  Kids, Men, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Smart, People, Challenges

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• 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.

  Andrew Stanton

  People, Criticism, Way

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• 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.

  Andrew Stanton

  Keys, Vacuums, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Mistake, Safety, My Mistakes

  Source: www.ign.com

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Film, Existence, Animated

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Ideas, Feels, Sequels

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• 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.

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  Book, Long, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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

  Andrew Stanton

  Book, Good Movie, Honor

  "20 Things to Know About JOHN CARTER; Plus an Awesome Interview with Director Andrew Stanton and Your First Look at a Tharks". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 11, 2011.

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