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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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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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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 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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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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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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 art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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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 believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.
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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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'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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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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