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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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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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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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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Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
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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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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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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
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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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I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
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If you think something's stupid, it probably is.
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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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Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
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I have motor oil running through my veins.
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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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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'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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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.
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When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.