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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
Animator
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Hollywood
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John Alan Lasseter
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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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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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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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.
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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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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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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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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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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The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.
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