John Lasseter Quotes

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

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• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Tell
  • Early
  • Storytelling

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Two

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Father

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Love
  • Power

• Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Medical
  • Bankruptcy

• I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Twitter
  • Awkward
  • Drums

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Energy

• My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Science

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• Dancing doesn't have a language.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Language
  • Dancing

• Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

  

  Matt Damon
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Book
  • Amazing

• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Selfish
  • Aim
  • Experiment

• When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Faith

• You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Movie
  • Alone