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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
Animator
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
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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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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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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 cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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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I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.
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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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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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