WORLD: How does WALL•E represent your singular vision?
STANTON: Well, what really interested me was the idea of the most human
thing in the universe being a machine because it has more interest in finding
out what the point of living is than actual people. The greatest commandment
Christ gives us is to love, but that's not always our priority. So I came up
with this premise that could demonstrate what I was trying to say—that
irrational love defeats the world's programming. You've got these two robots
that are trying to go above their basest directives, literally their
programming, to experience love.
With the human characters I wanted to show that our programming is the
routines and habits that distract us to the point that we're not really making
connections to the people next to us. We're not engaging in relationships, which
are the point of living—relationship with God and relationship with other
people.
I thought that was cool. :) Andrew Stanton directed Finding Nemo and Wall-E but has contirbuted to all the Pixar films in one way or another.
