John Lasseter Quotes
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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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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
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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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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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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 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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I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.
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Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
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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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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
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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 art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
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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 have motor oil running through my veins.
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I try to make pictures I would want to see.
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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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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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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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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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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.