John Lasseter Quotes

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

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.

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.

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.

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.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

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

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

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.'

I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars, ' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.

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!