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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

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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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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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Humor is the easiest to achieve the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
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