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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.

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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John Alan Lasseter
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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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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 have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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 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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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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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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