Top 187 Quotes & Sayings by John Lasseter
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.
Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.
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.
People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.
I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.
Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
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.
Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.
Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
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.
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
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 am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
I have motor oil running through my veins.
Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.
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.
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!
I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
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.'
When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.
Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.
'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.
I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.
'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
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?
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.
My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.
When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
True play is creativity.
I believe God is in the details.
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.'
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
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