John Lasseter Quotes
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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 realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
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I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.
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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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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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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?"
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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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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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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 believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
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It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.
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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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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
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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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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
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I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.
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'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
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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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Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.
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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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The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.
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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.
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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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It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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