John Lasseter Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't like people cleaning my room.
-
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
-
I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
-
Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
-
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
-
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
-
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
-
The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
-
For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
-
People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
-
I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
-
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
-
My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
-
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
-
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
-
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
-
Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
-
Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
-
You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.
-
I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the music soul, and I think that maybe not enough people connect to the blues. It's a very powerful place to be; and if you can express that to an audience, I think that you can express a lot through that.
-
God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
-
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
-
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.
