{"id":1362,"date":"2007-07-14T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/interview-john-lasseter"},"modified":"2007-07-14T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T08:12:00","slug":"interview-john-lasseter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/interview-john-lasseter\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: John Lasseter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/an_ear_to_the_ground\/2007\/07\/interview_ratatouille_producer.html\">The Manchester Evening News<\/a> has a very nice interview with John Lasseter as the Producer of <em>Ratatouille<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They talk about <em>Ratatouille<\/em> being completely funded by Pixar, John&#8217;s thoughts on animation, the infamous Pixar lunch, his role as Chief Creative Officer at WD Animation Studios and a host of other topics. <\/p>\n<p>I thought this piece of the interview was interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What are your thoughts on animation today?<\/span><br \/>\nI love it and I&rsquo;m excited about how many studios and production companies are doing animated features. I would much rather work in a healthy industry than be the only player in a bad industry. One of the things that I have had difficulty with is studios deciding not to do hand-drawn animation because they felt that audiences did not want to watch hand-drawn animation and hand-drawn animation became the scapegoat for bad story telling. But now at Disney we are going back to hand-drawn animation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good interview. Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/an_ear_to_the_ground\/2007\/07\/interview_ratatouille_producer.html\">take a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>The Manchester Evening News has a very nice interview with John Lasseter as the Producer of Ratatouille. They talk about Ratatouille being completely funded by Pixar, John&#8217;s thoughts on animation, the infamous Pixar lunch, his role as Chief Creative Officer at WD Animation Studios and a host of other topics. 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