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" The iPad changed my life! "
John Lasseter
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iPad
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" 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. "
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" We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films. "
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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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" People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that. "
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" Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development. "
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" I believe God is in the details. "
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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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" Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that. "
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" My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. "
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" With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. "
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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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" Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about. "
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" When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect. "
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" The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.' "
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" 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. "
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" True play is creativity. "
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" When you're a director, you really live whatever you do. "
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" I think the best movie ever made was 'Dumbo.' "
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" Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating. "
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" Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art. "
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" Pixar is not about computers, it's about people. "
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" For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of. "
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" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "
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" 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. "
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" I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you. "
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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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" '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. "
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