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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

John Lasseter

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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
Animator
Executive Producer
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Hollywood
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John Alan Lasseter
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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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 always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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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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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 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 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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We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
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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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I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
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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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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 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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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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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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