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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
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Hollywood
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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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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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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
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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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Humor is the easiest to achieve the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
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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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You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
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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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Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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