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" Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system. "
Andrew Stanton
You
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Art
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" I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it. "
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" Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances. "
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" The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity. "
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" Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not. "
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" 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. "
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" Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels. "
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" 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. "
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Home
Work
" 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. "
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Realize
Me
" I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig. "
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You
Always
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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. "
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Kind
" 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. "
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Nature
Women
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" I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind. "
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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. "
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Book
Never
" Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with. "
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Hang
Funny
Humor
" 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. "
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" I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar. "
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Before
Computer
" 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. "
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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. "
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" I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away. "
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" 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. "
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