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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
John Lasseter
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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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California
John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
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What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.
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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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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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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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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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 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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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've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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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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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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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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