Top 187 Quotes & Sayings by John Lasseter - Page 3

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.

The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.

I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.

The iPad changed my life!

I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.

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

The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.

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

Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.

The specific influences on villains to me is, 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.

You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.

We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

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 have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.

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

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.

Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.

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

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

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. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.

I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

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

The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

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.

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

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

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

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

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. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

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.

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

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

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

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.

Quality is the best business plan.