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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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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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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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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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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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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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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
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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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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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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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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 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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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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