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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With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
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When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'
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We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.
Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.
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I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.
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'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
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In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
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I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.
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The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.
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There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
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I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
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The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
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The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.
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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.