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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Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees.
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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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Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.
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He has been a tremendous influence on my career and on most animators and animation directors around the world.
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A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
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Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.
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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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I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.
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'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
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I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.
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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.
I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.
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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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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.