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" Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. "

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" I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure. "

John Lasseter

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

" 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. "

" Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films. "

" I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster. "

" Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art. "

" I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you. "

" I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool. "

" I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time. "

" For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of. "

John Lasseter

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" I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D! "

" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "

" I love working for a company full of geeks. "

" 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. "

" It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear. "

" I laugh very hard at work every day. "

" 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. "

" I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful. "

John Lasseter

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" You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey. "

" 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.' "

" I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons. "

" I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome. "

" Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away. "

John Lasseter

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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. "

" My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995. "