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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

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
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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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Quality is the best business plan.
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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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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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What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.
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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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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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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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