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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
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Film Producer
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Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
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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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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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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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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
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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 think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these 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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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 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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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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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 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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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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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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