John Lasseter Quotes

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

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?"

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

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.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

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 always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

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.

'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.

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

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.