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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.

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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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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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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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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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 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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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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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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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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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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