John Lasseter Quotes

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
John Lasseter

Art, Technology, Challenges

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'
John Lasseter

Trust, Time, Single

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?
John Lasseter

Love, Movies, Real

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
John Lasseter

Great, Bad, Children

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
John Lasseter

Play, Challenge, Kids

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
John Lasseter

Time, Waiting, Thought

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
John Lasseter

Life, Else, Wanted

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
John Lasseter

Real, Enough, Cannot

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
John Lasseter

Great, Busy, Give

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
John Lasseter

Joy, Films, Characters

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
John Lasseter

Art, Someone, Control

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
John Lasseter

Career, Living, Realized

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
John Lasseter

Through, Blood, Running

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
John Lasseter

Family, Movies, Whole

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
John Lasseter

History, Audience, Cinema

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
John Lasseter

Learned, Knew, Jokes

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
John Lasseter

Mother, Simple, Short

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
John Lasseter

Amazing, Job, Creative

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
John Lasseter

Love, Movies, Beautiful

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

Alone, Cannot, Whole

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Nationality: American

Born: January 12, 1957

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