Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Stanton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Defining films
In their own words
We loved the notion of 'Seven Samurai' – how you hire these warriors to help you fight off the bad guys – and we applied that structure to our story.
All the things that resonate with me personally are usually themes of failure, of trying to overcome your own limits... It's 'The 400 Blows' and 'Paper Moon' and 'Cool Hand Luke' and all these other kinds of films rolled into one.