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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The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
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This guy is one of the greatest that's ever lived,
Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
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I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
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Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.
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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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'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.
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'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.
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I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.
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I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked.
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I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.
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You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.