John Lasseter Quotes
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'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.
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In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
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Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees.
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When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.
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'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.
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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 love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.
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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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Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.
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I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
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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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When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.
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For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of.
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The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
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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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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
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Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.
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When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'
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If you think something's stupid, it probably is.
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I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.
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I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.
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At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
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Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.