Quotes by Andrew Stanton

“A lot of studios talk about a 12-to-1 ratio -- they come in with 12 ideas and one of them makes it,”

“They could stop the money.”

“Its like trying to turn an aircraft carrier around. It takes a long time for things to stop, so we took advantage of working very fast and redid a large part of the picture.”

“You end up using your own instincts. You end up having the guts to do what you should have done all along. After a while, we needed to give (the movie) back our voice. We went too far in listening to every single thing (Disney) told us to do.”

“Itll look even better now for somebody at home than it ever did for anybody seeing it for the first time in the theater.”

“He was one of the major players (at Pixar), and we have yet to process what that will mean over time.”

“Were not supervised. Were sort of allowed, like an independent filmmaker, to do what we want. You dont get that freedom anywhere else. And this is the only studio outside of Disney, when Walt Disney ran it, where an artist runs the whole place. Here, its John Lasseter, and that trickles down.”

“The big myth is that we want to make the best computer-animated movie in the world. And its like, no. We want to make the best movie we can make.”

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, peoples biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldnt get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

Im still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. Its just not in their nature.