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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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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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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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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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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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 believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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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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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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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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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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