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John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
Animator
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Editor
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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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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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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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'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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.
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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 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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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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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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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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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