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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.'

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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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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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've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.
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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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