World According to WALL-E's Andrew Stanton, Ben Burtt and the Cast
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Andrew Stanton on creating WALL-E’s facial expression:
“I got handed these binoculars at a baseball game, I missed the entire inning. I just turned the thing around and I started staring at it and I started making it go sad and then happy and then mad and then sad and I remembered doing that as a kid with my dad’s binoculars and I said, ‘It’s all there.’ There’s no nose, there’s no mouth, there’s nothing and it’s not trying to be a face. It just happens to ask that of me when I look at it and I said, ‘That’s it!’ I can’t improve upon that. So that’s why I ran with that."
Jeff Garlin on voicing the Captain:
“They videotaped every voice session. I thought, initially that it was behind-the-scenes (footage). I thought it was for the DVD or something, until like the fourth session, I'd say, ‘Why so much behind-the-scenes crap?’ And they go, ‘no, no, no. This is for the animators who can watch the way you say things.’ When I was watching the movie, I said, that's really something I'd do. But I don't over-think, so I'm not that self-aware.”