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" Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. "
John Lasseter
Friends
Characters
Beloved
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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! "
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Long
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" Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. "
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Great
World
Cinema
" My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. "
John Lasseter
Mother
Teacher
School
" 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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Bad
Everything
" People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. "
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Great
Little Things
People
" 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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Work
Think
Story
" 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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Deliver
You
Worse
" Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. "
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Play
Audience
Animation
" I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio. "
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Animation
Believe
Should
" The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times. "
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Street
You
Walking
" Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down. "
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Hands
Growing Up
Growing
" I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role. "
John Lasseter
Role
Myself
Think
" 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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Flag
Writing
Building
" Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation. "
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Animation
Work
Today
" Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating. "
John Lasseter
Realistic
Believable
Creating
" I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself. "
John Lasseter
Huge
Myself
Huge Fan
" 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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Cool
Home
Loved
" 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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Story
Character
Confidence
" I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film. "
John Lasseter
First
Proud
Reviews
" The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. "
John Lasseter
Technology
Inspires
Challenges
" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "
John Lasseter
Got
Blood
Veins
" 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. "
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Feel
Fine
Furniture
" 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. "
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People
School
Book
" 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
" If you think something's stupid, it probably is. "
John Lasseter
You
Something
Stupid
" The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing. "
John Lasseter
Believe
Good
Doing The Right Thing
" I try to make pictures I would want to see. "
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Pictures
Would
Want
" Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director. "
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Story
Me
Short
" I'm a big Disneyland nut. "
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Big
Nut
Disneyland
" 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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Time
Know
Process