Andrew Stanton Quotes
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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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I eventually just imagined being a little boy who was quote unquote 'normal': who could learn like all the kids around me that I felt excluded from. And I imagined myself into one of these and into someone who could read.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.
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There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?
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God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.
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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.
