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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.

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.
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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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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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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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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 have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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