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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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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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Hollywood
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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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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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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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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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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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 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 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 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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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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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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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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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