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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
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Hollywood
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John Alan Lasseter
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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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 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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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