John Lasseter Quotes
Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.
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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
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The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
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I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
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I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
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I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.
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Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
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Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
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I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
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I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
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What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.
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A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
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I remember I was really, really proud the first moment I got my insurance and also just going in to get my SAG card and filling out the form and realizing I was a member of all the unions I could be a part of as an actor. It was a really fulfilling experience for me.
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Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.
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Music should be your escape.
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Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
