John Lasseter Quotes
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Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
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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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You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.
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The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.
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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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I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.
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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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With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
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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.
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In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
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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.
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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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Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
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Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
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I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.
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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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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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Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
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Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.
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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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To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.
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Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'