John Lasseter Quotes
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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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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True play is creativity.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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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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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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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The iPad changed my life!
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One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.
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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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People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
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I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.
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I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
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It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.
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Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
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I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome.
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Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
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I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.
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I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
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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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When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
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When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.