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
John Ratzenberg on getting into a character who hovers around all day:
“I’ve got cousins [laughs]…You don’t really have to go too far to get into that headspace…It’s really scientific though, NASA tells us that if you’re in space for that long you’re going to lose bone density. So basically you just become a big baby. I think they went more for that than any kind of a cautionary tale.”
Ben Burtt on the basis for the sounds:
"Andrew if he’d wanted to I suppose could have hired actors and they stood in front of a mike and you record their voices and dub that in over character action but that would have of course not taken the whole idea or illusion very far that what he wanted was the illusion that these robot characters, the speech and sounds they made were really coming from their functions as machines that there was either a chip on board that synthesized the voice or the squeak of their motor would sound cute and that would indicate how they feel. The problem does go back, for me to the primal R2D2 idea, which was how do you have a character not speak words or in the case of WALL-E very few words, but you understand what is going on in their head and they also seem to have a depth of character."