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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.
John Lasseter
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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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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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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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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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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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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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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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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 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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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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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