Andrew Stanton Talks WALL-E

Andrew Stanton blabbed away to IGN about all things WALL-E, in their exclusive interview with... uh... Andrew Stanton.



IGN: One of the things you changed about animated movies with Finding Nemo was eliminating that ubiquitous "theme song." Is that something you did consciously, and is it something you prefer to continue with on Wall-E and future films?

Stanton: It's also a bit of a reflection of where we're at in the times. We're fans of movies just as much as anybody else, so if it annoys other people because you're seeing it too much, then it annoys us too. We might not want to do or see that kind of thing. We were very receptive to not wanting to do musical numbers or have characters break out into song, but that's been gone for so long that who knows? Maybe tomorrow we'll come out with a musical. I think we're more up for just the challenge of feeling like something is fresh and we haven't seen it before, because that's the reason anybody goes to the movies. It's really that simple drive that makes us decide what we want to do and how we're going to make it, so we may contradict ourselves all over the place, but the one thing we hopefully will always be consistent about is that we are trying to be fresh, trying to be original, and that first and foremost that the movie is good -- that it's worth the price of admission, and you forget where you were for two hours. That pretty much drives all choices, so if our choices contradict each other outside of that, it's just randomness.

I really do hate musicals, so I'm glad that this is now the exception rather than the rule in animated films. I also hate children and old people, and puppies.

Man... how I hate puppies.

IGN's interview with Andrew Stanton