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" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "
John Lasseter
Know
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Always
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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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" Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. "
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" For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of. "
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" Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else. "
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" Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child. "
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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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" Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life. "
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" Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it. "
John Lasseter
Nobody
Always
Time
" I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. "
John Lasseter
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Never
You
" Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology. "
John Lasseter
New
Person
Software
" 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. "
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Together
Place
" I love bringing the inanimate object to life. "
John Lasseter
I Love
Inanimate
Love
" The iPad changed my life! "
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Life
iPad
" I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. "
John Lasseter
Nut
Manager
Car
" When you're a director, you really live whatever you do. "
John Lasseter
Live
You
Whatever
" 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
" One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this. "
John Lasseter
Thought
Weekend
Life
" To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. "
John Lasseter
Me
Much
Dead
" 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
" 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! "
John Lasseter
Long Time
Long
Wedding
" 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
" When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!' "
John Lasseter
Beginning
End
People
" I love working for a company full of geeks. "
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Geeks
Company
Full
" 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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" There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. "
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Stars
Time
" I have motor oil running through my veins. "
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Oil
Veins
Motor
" 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
" 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
" I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers. "
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Disney
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