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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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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Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
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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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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 is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
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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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.
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