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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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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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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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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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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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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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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