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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.
John Lasseter
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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
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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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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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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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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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 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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