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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.

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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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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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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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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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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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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To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.
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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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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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