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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

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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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Toys

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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
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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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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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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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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To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
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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 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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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