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If you can think about it, you can create 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 have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.
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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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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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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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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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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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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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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 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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
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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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