John Lasseter Quotes
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We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
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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.
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In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
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I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D!
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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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Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.
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There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
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The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
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I believe God is in the details.
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When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.
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Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
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I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
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I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.
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I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.
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If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.
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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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Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.
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'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
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There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
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'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.
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The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.
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Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
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The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.