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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
— John Lasseter
Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
— John Lasseter
The iPad changed my life!
— John Lasseter
People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
— John Lasseter
In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.
— John Lasseter
Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
— John Lasseter
The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
— John Lasseter
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.
— John Lasseter
One of the fun things about play is making up stories ...
— John Lasseter
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?
— John Lasseter
To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.
— John Lasseter
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.
— John Lasseter
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
— John Lasseter
I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked.
— John Lasseter
I try to make pictures I would want to see.
— John Lasseter
I believe God is in the details.
— John Lasseter
True play is creativity.
— John Lasseter
I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.
— John Lasseter
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.
— John Lasseter
I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.
— John Lasseter
Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
— John Lasseter
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
— John Lasseter
Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
— John Lasseter
Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
— John Lasseter
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
— John Lasseter
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
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
— John Lasseter
When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.
— John Lasseter
I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
— John Lasseter
I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
— John Lasseter
Quality is the best business plan.
— John Lasseter
Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
— John Lasseter
Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.
— John Lasseter
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.
— John Lasseter
'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.
— John Lasseter
'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.
— John Lasseter
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
— John Lasseter
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
— John Lasseter
It's so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.
— John Lasseter
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!
— John Lasseter
At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
— John Lasseter
I love bringing the inanimate object to life.
— John Lasseter
To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
— John Lasseter
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
— John Lasseter
People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.
— John Lasseter
When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
— John Lasseter
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
— John Lasseter
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John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.
— Andrew Stanton
Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
— John Lasseter
I think the best movie ever made was 'Dumbo.'
— John Lasseter
Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
— John Lasseter
I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
— John Lasseter
I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.
— John Lasseter
At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
— John Lasseter
'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
— John Lasseter
I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
— John Lasseter
I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
— John Lasseter
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.
— John Lasseter
It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.
— John Lasseter
I laugh very hard at work every day.
— John Lasseter
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
— John Lasseter
I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
— John Lasseter
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.
— John Lasseter
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.
— John Lasseter
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.
— John Lasseter
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.
— John Lasseter
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
— John Lasseter
If you can think about it, you can create it.
— John Lasseter
I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
— John Lasseter
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.
— John Lasseter
I have motor oil running through my veins.
— John Lasseter
If you think something's stupid, it probably is.
— John Lasseter
There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
— John Lasseter
There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
— John Lasseter
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
— John Lasseter
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
— John Lasseter
Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
— John Lasseter
