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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
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
John A. 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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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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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This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.
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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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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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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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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 have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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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 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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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