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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
Pixar is not about computers, it's about people. John Lasseter
People About Computers Pixar
Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that. John Lasseter
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I laugh very hard at work every day. John Lasseter
Work Day Every Day Every Laugh Very Hard
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. John Lasseter
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I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful. John Lasseter
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Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life. John Lasseter
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I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers. John Lasseter
Great Animators End Disney Careers
Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney. John Lasseter
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I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role. John Lasseter
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A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences. John Lasseter
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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. John Lasseter
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I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. John Lasseter
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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. John Lasseter
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I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool. John Lasseter
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'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story. John Lasseter
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I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' John Lasseter
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For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of. John Lasseter
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Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation. John Lasseter
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Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. John Lasseter
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The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company. John Lasseter
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My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. John Lasseter
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When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons. John Lasseter
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