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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
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John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
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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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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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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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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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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 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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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