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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
John A. Lasseter
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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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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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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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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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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'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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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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The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.
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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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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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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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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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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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 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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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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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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