Suite101.com has a two part interview with director Andrew Stanton on WALL•E, Hello Dolly and Sci-Fi. On second-guessing what the audience wants, Stanton says…
“The day we start thinking about what the audience wants, we’re going to make bad choices. We’ve always holed ourselves up in a building for 4 years and ignored the rest of the world, because nobody are bigger movie geeks than we are, so we know exactly what we are dying to see with our family and kids. We don’t need other people to tell us that. We trust the audience member in ourselves.”
I found that bit particularly important for everyone to read. Read Part 1, and Part 2.
Last modified: June 12, 2008
There are also part 3 and part 4, very interesting:
part 3: http://hollywood-animated-films.suite101.com/article.cfm/garbage_in_walle
part 4:
http://hollywood-animated-films.suite101.com/ article.cfm/mistakesliveaction_in_walle (without space)