WALL-E director Andrew Stanton talks art house inspirations, Pixar blockbusters, and getting the Criterion treatment
is a perfect synthesis of the epic pop blockbusters that you loved and those intimate art house films. And you had a well-financed toolbox, yet you’re constantly zeroing in on these very simple emotional beats. How did you keep your arms around all of that?I call it inventing a new color. Everybody’s trying to guess what this color looks like that we’ve never envisioned before, and you’re all kind of blindly going forward, holding hands.
AVC: Tell me about both this template and working in the Hollywood structure and occasionally peeking out the door from Pixar and seeing how the rest of the industry operated.Well, for as Pollyanna and as nirvana as we make the environment at Pixar, I also realized that every movie that I’ve ever been inspired by and watched and still refer to, most of them were under much harsher restrictive circumstances, yet they made it.
I sort of put myself out as a chef for hire for other restaurants and just see how they do it and just didn’t complain. I just figured it’s all learning a learning curve.
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