John Lasseter Quotes
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Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
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I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
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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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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
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I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.
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Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.
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The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
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Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
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I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.
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I try to make pictures I would want to see.
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I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
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I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
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Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
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When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.
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I have motor oil running through my veins.
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I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.
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I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
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What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.