John Lasseter
John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseteris an American animator and film director, who is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and DisneyToon Studios. He is also the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth12 January 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.
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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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At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.
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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
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A simple rule of thumb is that the more geometric something is, ... the easier it is to reproduce on a computer. The more organic something is, the more difficult it is to reproduce on computer. And so, hence, 'Toy Story' was the perfect story for our first film -- man-made world, man-made environment, flat floors. 'A Bug's Life,' there is nothing geometric about this movie.
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'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.
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Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
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Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
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Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.
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When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.
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Even if I can't be in Los Angeles, I can be watching reels. I can be looking at the art direction.
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It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.
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This guy is one of the greatest that's ever lived,