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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
John Lasseter
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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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 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 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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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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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 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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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.
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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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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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