Top 35 Andrew Stanton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Frankly, there isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.”

— Andrew Stanton

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2. “The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.”

— Andrew Stanton

3. “If you want someone’s attention, whisper.”

— Andrew Stanton

4. “Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.”

— Andrew Stanton

5. “Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system.”

— Andrew Stanton

6. “Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.”

— Andrew Stanton

7. “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

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8. “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

9. “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

10. “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.’”

— Andrew Stanton

11. “That’s what great art does – it inspires other artists to do great art, and that’s what it should do.”

— Andrew Stanton

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

— Andrew Stanton

13. “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. Its a nice problem to have.”

— Andrew Stanton

14. “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

15. “Loneliness is, I think, people’s biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.”

— Andrew Stanton

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

— Andrew Stanton

17. “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.”

— Andrew Stanton

18. “I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.”

— Andrew Stanton

19. “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.”

— Andrew Stanton

20. “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.”

— Andrew Stanton

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

— Andrew Stanton

22. “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.”

— Andrew Stanton

23. “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.”

— Andrew Stanton

24. “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

25. “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

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

— Andrew Stanton

27. “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.”

— Andrew Stanton

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

— Andrew Stanton

29. “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.”

— Andrew Stanton

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

— Andrew Stanton

31. “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

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

— Andrew Stanton

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

— Andrew Stanton

34. “Story telling is joke telling.”

— Andrew Stanton

35. “Make the audience put things together. Don’t give them four, give them two plus two.”

— Andrew Stanton