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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

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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
John A. Lasseter
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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 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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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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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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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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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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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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 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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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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