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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
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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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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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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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