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• I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

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  Home, Character, Weekend

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.

  John Lasseter

  Thinking, Genre Is, Shoes

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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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.

  John Lasseter

  Art, Two, Hands

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• Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

  John Lasseter

  Creating, World, Pixar

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• Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

  John Lasseter

  Children, Earth, Toys

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• People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

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  Real, People, World

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• I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.

  John Lasseter

  Character, Cartoon, Watches

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• A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

  John Lasseter

  Joy, Different, Film

  Amid Amidi, John Lasseter (2009). “The Art of Pixar Short Films”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

  John Lasseter

  Thinking, Skills, Creative

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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.

  John Lasseter

  Father, Burning, Four

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• I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

  John Lasseter

  Kids, Fishing, Worry

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• The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

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  Growing Up, Curls, Details

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• One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

  John Lasseter

  Fun, Play, Stories

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• The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

  John Lasseter

  Reality, Looks, Littles

  "PR Interviews with 'Bolt' Co-Directors and Exec. Producer John Lasseter". Interview with Ed Liu, www.toonzone.net. March 25, 2009.

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• I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

  John Lasseter

  Fans, Animation, Wells

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

  John Lasseter

  Running, Blood, Veins

  "John Lasseter | No 4", www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

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  Technology, Excited, Young

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• 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.

  John Lasseter

  Smart, Views, Perfect

  "John Lasseter Talks CARS 2, BRAVE and the Future of Pixar". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. May 29, 2011.

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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.

  John Lasseter

  Talking, Pun, Jokes

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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.

  John Lasseter

  Jobs, Creative, Talent

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• What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.

  John Lasseter

  Fun, Writing, Artist

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Kids, Ideas

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

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  Water, Bigs, Really Great

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

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  Technology, Thinking, Surround Sound

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• 'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

  John Lasseter

  Beautiful, Watches, Today

  "John Lasseter Gives the Lowdown on Bolt". Interview, movieweb.com. March 23, 2009.

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