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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 always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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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 hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.
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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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 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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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the 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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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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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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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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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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