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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.
John Lasseter
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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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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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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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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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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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 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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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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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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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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 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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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.
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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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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 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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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