In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.
Andrew StantonSadly, 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 StantonI'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 StantonWe 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.
Andrew StantonI never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
Andrew StantonI'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.
Andrew Stanton