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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
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John Alan Lasseter
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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 quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
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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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
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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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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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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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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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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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.
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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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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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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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