John Lasseter Quotes
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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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Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
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If you think something's stupid, it probably is.
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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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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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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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'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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
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Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
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I try to make pictures I would want to see.
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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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When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.
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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
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What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.
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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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I have motor oil running through my veins.
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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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I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
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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.
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When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.