John Lasseter Quotes
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Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.
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Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
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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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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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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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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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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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'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.
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True play is creativity.
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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 try to make pictures I would want to see.
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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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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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I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
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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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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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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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You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'
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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 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 only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'
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I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you.