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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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Hollywood
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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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'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've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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?
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I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
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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 always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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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You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.
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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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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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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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