John Lasseter Quotes

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• Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
• Quality is the best business plan.
• My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public…
• You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends,…
• People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike…
• Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.
• If you can think about it, you can create it.
• One of the fun things about play is making up stories...
• Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
• Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.
• Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
• The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of…
• Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.
• The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
• To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
• People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
• A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.
• I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever…
• You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out…
• There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

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