Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton is an American filmmaker, animator, and screenwriter who has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, currently serving as Vice President, Creative. He is best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Pixar films Finding Nemo and WALL-E, as well as directing Finding Dory and co-writing the first several Toy Story films. He studied character animation at the California Institute of the Arts before joining Pixar as its second animator and ninth employee.
“Walt left like half of his estate to fund this institution. And it was that... All of them were hired directly by Disney and Disney animation right out of school. And then Disney fired all of them.”
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