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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
Animator
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Hollywood
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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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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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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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Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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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 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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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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