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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
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
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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 believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
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I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.
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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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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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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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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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The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.
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I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards How did they do that?
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There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.
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To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.
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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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