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	John Lasseter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John A. Lasseter (born January 12, 1957 in Hollywood, California) is an American animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Feature Animation.
		Lasseter is a founding member of Pixar, where he oversees all of Pixar's films and associated projects as an executive producer.
		Lasseter is a close friend of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, and has executive produced several of Miyazaki's films for their release in the United States, also overseeing the dubbing of the films for their English language soundtrack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lasseter (604 words)

	John Lasseter Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lasseter earned an Honorary Oscar in 1995 "for the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film." Meanwhile, Jobs negotiated a better deal for Pixar—what worked out to be a 50-50 split—while the new animation studio geared up for what became an unprecedented string of hits.
		Lasseter’s next project as executive producer, “The Incredibles” (2004), about a family of former masked crime fighters brought out of retirement to fight a jilted fan turned to evil, was directed by former Cal Institute classmate Brad Bird.
		Lasseter had spent the previous years in frustrating negotiations with Eisner—discussions in private meetings were leaked to the public while he was forced to wait months for a counterproposal.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/1114743 (1777 words)

	Synopsis - Page 1 // Thank You, Mr. Lasseter // Nausicaa.net
		Miyazaki jokes that Lasseter is too modest - Miyazaki would say, "You are all wrong, and I am right!" More seriously, Miyazaki notes that sometimes, by the time he has finished persuading his staff that his own way is better, he realises that their way is actually better and has a sudden change of heart.
		Lasseter contrasts this with the more collaborative, co-operative style of working style at Pixar, noting that a story segment can be re-worked up to 30 times before it is ever animated.
		Lasseter describes the way his films are partitioned into discrete sequences, which occasionally leads to a disjointed feel when they are initially merged together.
	www.nausicaa.net /miyazaki/lasseter/synopsis/page1.html (756 words)

	Bio for John Lasseter on MSN Movies
		Shortly after graduation, Lasseter was hired by the Disney feature animation department and he spent the next five years there, working on such features as The Fox and the Hound (1981) and the short Mickey's Christmas Carol (1984).
		In the early '90s, Lasseter and three writers developed the script for the groundbreaking Toy Story (1995), the tale of rival toys vying for the attention of their little-boy owner.
		Lasseter was presented with a Special Achievement Academy Award for his part in bringing the first feature-length computer animated film to the screen.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=204559&mp=b (710 words)

	Back on the road again \| The Arts \| The Australian
		She is responsible for Lasseter's loud shirts, or at least those with designs that match his films.
		Cars was first discussed in 1998 but Lasseter did not nail the story until Nancy persuaded him to take her and their five sons on a two-month road trip across the US.
		Lasseter says he is looking forward to helping revitalise Disney animation - it has produced huge hits from Bambi to The Lion King but is regarded as off the boil right now - and repeatedly praises Disney president Bob Iger.
	theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,19310967-16947,00.html (1052 words)

	John Lasseter at MoMA (kottke.org)
		MoMA just opened their show about Pixar last week and on Friday, we went to a presentation by John Lasseter, head creative guy at the company.
		Lasseter showed colorscripts from Pixar's films (which can be viewed in the exhibition).
		Based on the clip Lasseter showed and some of his other comments, I'm happy to report that I was wrong to be so skeptical and am very much looking forward to its release in 2006.
	www.kottke.org /05/12/john-lasseter-at-moma (457 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pixar whiz reanimates Disney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		EMERYVILLE, Calif. — John Lasseter is a hugger, not a handshaker.
		Lasseter blames his "formal" attire — a muted Hawaiian shirt rather than his preferred loud variety, slacks and shoes in place of jeans and sneakers — on the Oscar-nominee luncheon he had to attend in Los Angeles earlier in the day.
		Here, Lasseter, 49 and the father of five boys ages 8 to 26, can relax and be his big-kid self again, not so hard to do when your office looks like an overstocked aisle at Toys R Us.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2006-03-08-cars-main_x.htm (1497 words)

	Pixar Revs Up with 'Cars' - John Lasseter anticipates Pixar's first release since the Disney deal - Zap2it
		Pixar Animation Head John Lasseter, whose father was a Chevrolet dealership parts manager, had long hoped to make a movie about automobiles and car-culture, but the project didn't find its form until, at his wife Nancy's urging, the family took an extended vacation six years ago.
		"She thought, 'Be careful, John, one day you're going to wake up and your boys will have gone off to college and you would have missed it.' And she was right," Lasseter recalls.
		In fact, Lasseter and his Pixar followers have been entrusted with changing the corporate culture at Disney, at least to some degree.
	www.zap2it.com /movies/news/zap-lassetercarsstory,0,1771039.story (395 words)

	Pixar Investor Relations
		John Lasseter is chief creative officer of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios and principal creative advisor, Walt Disney Imagineering.
		Lasseter was honored by the Art Directors Guild with its prestigious “Outstanding Contribution To Cinematic Imagery” award, and received an honorary degree from the American Film Institute.
		Lasseter was a member of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm Ltd., where he designed and animated the computer-generated Stained Glass Knight character in the 1985 Steven Spielberg-produced film Young Sherlock Holmes.
	www.pixar.com /companyinfo/about_us/execs.htm (601 words)

	Pixar Creative Chief to Seek to Restore the Disney Magic - New York Times
		"John Lasseter is probably the most respected single person in American animation," said Kevin Koch, president of Animation Guild Local 839, the Hollywood animators' union.
		Lasseter is an outgoing, slightly harried man who invariably appears in his trademark Hawaiian shirts and jeans, and speaks with contagious enthusiasm.
		Lasseter and other Pixar artists are known for their enthusiasm for the classic Disney films, and for the drawn features of the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/25/business/media/25lasseter.html?ex=1295845200&en=2c8c6b245397ab6a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1035 words)

	John Lasseter News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pixar’s boy racer, John Lasseter, has driven the animated movie Cars straight to the top of the US box-office podium and the corks are popping at Disney for the first time since The Lion King, writes...
		There's no question that John Lasseter is a genius in animation, and has revolutionized the animated film industry as co-founder and Chief Creative Executive over at Pixar Animation Studios.
		JOHN Lasseter was recently on the cover of Fortune magazine, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and an expression that can only be described as delirious.
	www.topix.net /who/john-lasseter (654 words)

	USATODAY.com - Disney kicked off career of animation's Mr. Incredible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Lasseter, the creative force behind Pixar's megahits such as The Incredibles, Toy Story and Finding Nemo, has a reputation as the man with the golden touch.
		"John has brilliantly applied the fundamental ideas he learned at Disney —; that the characters and the story line are the most important things," says Aaron Berger of Quattro Media, which represents animation artists and producers.
		Lasseter couldn't be reached for comment, but those who know him say some of his real-life experiences have also played an essential part in his moviemaking decisions.
	www.usatoday.com /money/media/2006-01-25-lasseter-usat_x.htm (695 words)

	Cars (John Lasseter, 2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cars is pretty much okay, about par for Lasseter (I'd be hard put to name a favorite--not because I love his works (I don't) but because I don't have many fond memories to choose from).
		Pixar, with Lasseter behind it, seems to revel in trying to animate unpromising material, from toys (which are fairly anthropomorphic, and therefore easy) to bugs, fish, automobiles, no less.
		Lasseter does okay--I don't think it's a bad film--but in my ideal Route 66 movie there'd be an endless line of greasy spoons.
	journals.aol.com /noelbotevera/MyJournal/entries/2006/06/11/cars-john-lasseter-2006/1057 (466 words)

	John Lasseter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of the successful animators from 1980's is John A. Lasseter who is crazy about animation and best known as a director of "Toy Story," the first full-length computer animated film which won a special achievement Academy Award.
		Lasseter started to fall in love with hand-drawn animation and cartoons especially Disney and Warner Brothers when he was in high school.
		Lasseter wrote to the Walt Disney about his passion on animation, and he got accepted to the animation program at California technology of Arts as a second student and apprenticed at Disney during his summer breaks.
	www.rit.edu /~hxa1544/imm/project1/page1.html (271 words)

	John Lasseter (executive producer) and Pete Docter (director) Monsters Inc. Interviews by Paul Fischer, Published ...
		Lasseter: The thing is, is if you think about these movies, they take really about four years to make.
		Lasseter: You are just lucky to have a movie to watch. We were really, really, really under the gun to finish this one.
		Lasseter: When she was young, when she first started, her language, you couldn't really tell. Only her parents knew what she was saying. But as she got older, she started speaking English to the point where the editors would go back and turn it back into nonsense.
	www.dealmemo.com /Interview/John_Lasseter_and_Pete_Docter_Monsters_Inc.htm (1146 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| John Lasseter (I)
		John Lasseter is the founder and creative frontman of Pixar, the computer animation pioneers behind Toy Story, A Bug's Life and the forthcoming Monsters, Inc. On-stage at the NFT, he tells Jonathan Ross about his hopes for CGI, how he upset the Harry Potter people and why traditional animation will never die
		What proved it to me was when John Blin, a dear friend of mine, came up to me after it premiered and said, 'John, John, I have a question for you'.
		And I knew at that moment that computer animation had achieved something that had never been achieved before; it was the story and the characters were important in the film, not the fact it was made with computer graphics.
	film.guardian.co.uk /lff2001/news/0,1555,604658,00.html (2618 words)

	Pixar Mastermind John Lasseter - ComingSoon.net
		Lasseter: We called Paul Newman, because he was one of the greatest actors ever but also [due to] his love of cars and auto racing.
		Lasseter: First of all, the merger isn't going to change Pixar at all, because that was one of the parts of the deal.
		Lasseter: Disney has been sort of an executive-driven studio for a long time, and I believe in having the stories come from [the directors], whether it's something they wrote and they like and it comes from their heart, and surrounding them and being honest with them when things are working and not working.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/movienews.php?id=14741 (2613 words)

	Astrology at the Movies: John Lasseter, Capricorn and Creative Head of Pixar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lasseter is the director of the Toy Story movies, as well as A Bug's Life and Cars.
		Born January 12, 1957 in Hollywood (imdb.com), Lasseter is a Capricorn, a natural leader.
		John has mentioned that great animation is not enough to make a movie to be proud of -- it needs to capture the audience emotionally, there has to be a quality story in which the viewer cares about the characters.
	www.jeffreykishner.com /movies/2006/06/john-lasseter-capricorn-and-creative.html (756 words)

	John Lasseter @ Filmbug
		John Lasseter returns to the realm of toys for his third feature film credit as director.
		Lasseter was born in Hollywood and grew up in Whittier, California.
		Lasseter and his wife, Nancy, have five boys ranging in age from 2 to 18.
	www.filmbug.com /db/36567 (544 words)

	Jim Hill : John Lasseter: âQuality is a great business planâ
		These are the remarks that John Lasseter made last month as he stood on stage at Arrowhead Pond.
		Given the amount of time that Lasseter has allegedly been devoting to that new âMonsters, Inc.â attraction thatâs supposed to be opening at WDWâs Magic Kingdom in 2007.
		John Lasseter MAY be âtoo touchy-feely and trusting for his own goodâ, but Steve Jobs certainly isnât; Iâm sure everything is spelled out to the last letter in ink and paper.
	jimhillmedia.com /blogs/jim_hill/archive/2006/04/20/1959.aspx (4077 words)

	X-Press Online: JOHN LASSETER - Baby You Can Drive My Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Lasseter is a Walt Disney for the 21st Century.
		Lasseter's latest film is Cars, the saga of one Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson), a hotshot, animated stock car who's on his way to a big race when he gets waylaid in the sleepy Californian town of Radiator Springs.
		The jovial Lasseter, wearing one of his trademark Hawaiian shirts, was interviewed at Pixar's headquarters in San Francisco, shortly after his appointment as chief creative officer of a newly united Pixar and Walt Disney Co.
	www.xpressmag.com.au /archives/2006/06/john_lasseter_b.php (1108 words)

	CanMag- Movie Interviews- John Lasseter on Cars
		John Lasseter’s last movie for Pixar was Toy Story 2, the last three having been handled by other Pixar protégés.
		Now that they’ve had their chance to shine, it’s Lasseter’s turn again with a project that’s been his personal dream, Cars.
		And she thought, ‘Be careful, John, one day you’re going to wake up and your boys will have gone off to college and you would have missed it.’ And she was right.
	www.canmag.com /news/4/3/4010 (798 words)

	» Blog Archive » John Lasseter Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Lasseter arrived in Sydney last month to talk about the movie, he demonstrated a showman’s flair by bringing a suitcase full of toy cars and wearing, in a change from his usual Hawaiian shirt, a loud print number featuring cars.
		Lasseter’s father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership and the boy grew up loving cars.
		Lasseter says there are parallels in the animator’s work.
	www.idgit.com /blog/?p=149 (1671 words)

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