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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
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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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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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'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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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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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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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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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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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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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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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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