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John Lasseter
John Lasseter
American Director
Born: Jan 12, 1957
Animation Disney Love Me People You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
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. John Lasseter
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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. John Lasseter
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Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. John Lasseter
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As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas. John Lasseter
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I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me. John Lasseter
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I love bringing the inanimate object to life. John Lasseter
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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. John Lasseter
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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. John Lasseter
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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. John Lasseter
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I've got Disney blood running through my veins. John Lasseter
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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.' John Lasseter
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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. John Lasseter
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Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important. John Lasseter
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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that. John Lasseter
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Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. John Lasseter
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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. John Lasseter
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I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? John Lasseter
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Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it. John Lasseter
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. John Lasseter
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I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real. John Lasseter
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Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. John Lasseter
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills. John Lasseter
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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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I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s. John Lasseter
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We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story. John Lasseter
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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten. John Lasseter
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