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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
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Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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 believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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