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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
Animator
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Hollywood
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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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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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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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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 believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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 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.
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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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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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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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Humor is the easiest to achieve the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
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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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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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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