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" People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that. "
John Lasseter
Having Fun
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" In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want. "
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" I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well. "
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" Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child. "
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" I think the best movie ever made was 'Dumbo.' "
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" I love working for a company full of geeks. "
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" When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing. "
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" I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did. "
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" Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology. "
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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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" I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me. "
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" With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. "
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" 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. "
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" In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family. "
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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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" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "
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" Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art. "
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" If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is. "
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" I'm a big Disneyland nut. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The iPad changed my life! "
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" Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it. "
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" 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. "
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" A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences. "
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" What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it. "
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" The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.' "
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" I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time. "
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