"Asteroid Android"

[vanessajoyce]

New Zealand Hearald interview with Stanton

www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10531472

[bima]

Wow, I love him! He's so modest. It's nice to see someone that talented, genius, but always believe, respect, and understand us as a viewer.

[smkndofpnutdssrt]

"So if I had any message, it was just that this character was asking 'what is the point of living?' and it's to love. If you look at it in those eyes it all makes sense. It's not a pile of mini political messages to check off. I would hate a movie like that. I think any good storyteller has one message."

I love listening to that man talk.

[Viva la Vida]

"There is something about animation, at least in my adulthood, where almost by default people think it's made by committee. People assume it's made by corporate heads, that it is a product of a company and nobody assumes that about a live action film.

"There is a director with a vision and his quirky tastes and opinions and ways he looks at the world would be expected to be an asset of that. So if I have to go that quirky and that outside the box to remind you that this is not made by a company, by a committee, by a machine by a factory, it's made by artists, then so be it."

You can tell from this quote that Stanton is beyond sick of the "cartoons are for kids" stereotype. Sadly, even after WALL-E's release, there are still people who enforce that belief; last night there was one such goofball on an IMDb thread about the film's Oscar chances(and he/she claimed to not having even seen it ).

I also really liked Stanton's quote about curiosity and complacency.