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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?

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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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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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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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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'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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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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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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In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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