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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
Animator
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
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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 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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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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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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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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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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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.
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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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
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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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'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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.
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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 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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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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