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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

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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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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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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 more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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 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 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 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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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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