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 press always tends to say these companies are competitors. They are missing the point. As a fan, I want to help the industry. I would love for every studio to produce a blockbuster so we can get more talented people in the industry. Competition to us is when a family walks up to the multiplex and all those titles are up there. I want everyone to be successful.
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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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There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
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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.
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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.