John Lasseter Quotes

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• When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the…
• Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
• It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.
• One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to…
• The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
• 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…
• 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…
• Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
• I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
• I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
• I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
• In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
• Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
• 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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