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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
Animator
Executive Producer
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Hollywood
California
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'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.
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I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.
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I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
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I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.
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The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.
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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
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This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.
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There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.
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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
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