John Lasseter Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
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Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.
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I believe God is in the details.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
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Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
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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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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 never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
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'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.
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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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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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'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.