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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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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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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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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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 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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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 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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