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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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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 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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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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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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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'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 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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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in 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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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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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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