Writer-director Andrew Stanton got in on the ground floor at animation studio Pixar and apparently never looked back. He’s been involved in virtually all things Pixar for the past decade and a half; he co-directed A Bug’s Life (with John Lasseter) and Finding Nemo (with Lee Unkrich), collaborated on the scripts for the Toy Story movies, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, and provided voices for almost all the above, plus Cars and The Incredibles. This year sees the release of his first solo writing-directing project, the Pixar picture WALL•E, about a trash-compacting robot still doing his job after 700 years alone on an abandoned Earth. The A.V. Club recently spoke with Stanton about the Pixar mentality, making live-action films in slow-motion, WALL•E’s resemblance to another movie robot, and why WALL•E is so obsessed with the Barbra Streisand movie Hello, Dolly!
Read the interview here.
