John Lasseter Quotes

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• There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
• You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the 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…
• 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 love bringing the inanimate object to life.
• I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.
• 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…
• Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.
• I try to make pictures I would want to see.
• I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
• What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.
• Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
• When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.
• Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their…
• My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
• With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
• Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
• Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
• True play is creativity.
• We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other…

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