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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.

~John Lasseter

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Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

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I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

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Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

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Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

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I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

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If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 12th, 1957

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