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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.

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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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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'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 more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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