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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
John A. Lasseter
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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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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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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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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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Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
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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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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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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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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.
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We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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