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John Lasseter

"I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career."

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"I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

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"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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"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."
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"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
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"I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second."
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"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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"I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives."
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"If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story."
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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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