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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
Film Director
Film Editor
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Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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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 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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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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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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Quality is the best business plan.
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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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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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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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I believe in research you cannot do enough research believability comes out of what's real.
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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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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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