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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In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
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When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
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Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.
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I promise you we will make films that entertain you the moment the lights go down. We're making Disney the one place you have to work (as an animator).
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I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
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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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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.
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With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
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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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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.