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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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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
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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 fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.
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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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