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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
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Hollywood
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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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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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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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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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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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 always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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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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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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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've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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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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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Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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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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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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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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