John Lasseter Quotes

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

John Lasseter

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• The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Always
  • Better
  • Buildings

• Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Many
  • Democrats
  • Worldview

• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Singing
  • Brother

• I really am a cockeyed optimist.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Really
  • Optimist
  • Am

• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Day
  • Hurt
  • Horse

• Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • You
  • Hat

• I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • People
  • Feel
  • Ways

• I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Writing
  • High

• I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Man
  • Dark

• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Want
  • Fast

• Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Work
  • Rate
  • Exchange

• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Personality

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • You
  • Know
  • Will

• He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienist and the florist.

  

  O. Henry
  • Free
  • Popular

• I also was afraid I was a very bad actress, because I'd become famous very fast and was making money for people. When you're making money, they're never going to tell you whether you're good or bad. They don't care. I knew that if I had any talent, this would kill it. I never wanted to be a famous bad actress!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• That's why our country is such a beautiful, beautiful experiment: We manifest, we allow freedom if you follow certain rules and if you work really hard. That's at the root of our cherished values.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Work
  • Country
  • Why

• People like me thought America was the best place to be creative, to be free to create, to have the freedom to be who you are.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • People
  • America
  • Free

• The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Accustomed
  • Afflictions
  • Not Disturb

• I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Family
  • Stores
  • Jewels

• For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

  

  Richard Wright Pink Floyd
  • Thinking
  • Playing Music
  • Meditating

• In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.

  

  Steve Erickson
  • Culture
  • Fiction
  • Perceptions

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

  

  John Lasseter