John Lasseter Quotes
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Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
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I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.
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I try to make pictures I would want to see.
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'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
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When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
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In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
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The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
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I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.
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'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.
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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
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When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.
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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
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At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
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In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
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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.
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Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.
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When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'
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In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.
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'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.
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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
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I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
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For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of.