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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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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've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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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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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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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I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
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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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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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