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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
Animator
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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'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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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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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
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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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The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.
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I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards How did they do that?
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To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
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