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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
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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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'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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I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.
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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 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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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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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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