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" 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. "
John Lasseter
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" Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child. "
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Child
" 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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Baby
Film
Mother
" For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of. "
John Lasseter
Me
Always
World
" '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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Me
Up
Car
" The iPad changed my life! "
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My Life
Life
iPad
" 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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Soul
Kind
Company
" With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. "
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Science
Time
Fail
" 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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Light
Love
Love Is
" We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out. "
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Young
Story
Talent
" I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes. "
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Eyes
Children
Fun
" 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. "
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Hollywood
Want
Nature
" 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. "
John Lasseter
Perfect
Love
Me
" 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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Wise
Amazing
Car
" 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. "
John Lasseter
Cool
Home
Loved
" 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. "
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Division
Back
Arts
" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "
John Lasseter
Got
Blood
Veins
" 'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar. "
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Studios
Animation
Bolt
" 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? "
John Lasseter
Always
Think
Movies
" 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. "
John Lasseter
You
Story
People
" When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons. "
John Lasseter
People
School
Book
" I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator. "
John Lasseter
Fan
Being
Big Fan
" I try to make pictures I would want to see. "
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Pictures
Would
Want
" People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that. "
John Lasseter
Having Fun
Fun
Want
" Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. "
John Lasseter
Feel
Fine
Furniture
" Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art. "
John Lasseter
Art
Challenges
Inspires
" You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. "
John Lasseter
Alone
Cannot
Imagery
" When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about. "
John Lasseter
Moment
You
Action
" Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. "
John Lasseter
History
Cinema
Audience
" I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you. "
John Lasseter
Me
Game
Think
" When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills. "
John Lasseter
Because
Look
Skills