John Lasseter Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Lasseter
John Lasseter Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from John Lasseter on Wise Famous Quotes.
Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.
I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome.
I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.
I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
It's so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.
I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D!
Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.
Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.
I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don't belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.
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.
I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.
Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
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.
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
'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.
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.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.