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John Lasseter Quotes

I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 12, 1957

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Proud First Out Got Film Mediocre

I starred in Dr. Pepper commercials and Buick ads.

Pepper Commercials Ads Starred Dr

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

You Single Own Mothers Admiration

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

Baseball Think Doing You Going Last

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.

I Am Think Confident Never Going Am

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Generation Like Contemporary Most

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

Matthew Lillard

Time Money Creativity You Diligence

You want your customers to value your service.

Service Value You Want Customers

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

Stephen Collins

Process Doing You Actor Will Make

To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.

Fear City Gun Back Beyond See

I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place.

Donald Baechler

Quality Painting Place Become Image

There's no reason my films can't work as hard as VR does to hook an audience and never let them go, so I think that that it turns the volume up a little bit on storytelling. The same way when I was doing commercials and then I went and shot 'Go,' and 'Go' has a level of pace that is unlike any of my other movies.

Work Think Doing Movies Storytelling

The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.

Christopher Voss

Control Energy Questions You Admit

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