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John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
Animator
Executive Producer
Film Director
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Screenwriter
Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
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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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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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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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'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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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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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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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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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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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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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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