"I came around to what the movie and the premise is for me: 'Irrational love defies life's programming.' We all fall into our ruts. We all fall into our routines, our distractions, and our automations. And it just takes random acts of kindness, joy, love, to make you appreciate what you have or to get out of the rut that you're in. I felt this premise could apply to what the state of humanity had become, to what WALL·E was going through, and what EVE's robotic life was like before somebody awakened her."
—Andrew Stanton, director/writer