Andrew Stanton

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Great art inspires great art.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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