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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
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Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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 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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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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 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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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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