John Lasseter Quotes
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True play is creativity.
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One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.
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You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'
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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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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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I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.
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'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.
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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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Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.
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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
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I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
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I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome.
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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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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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For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of.
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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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I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.
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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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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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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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Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
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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?
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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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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.