John Lasseter Quotes

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• Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
• At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
• At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
• I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny…
• The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
• Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up,…
• I laugh very hard at work every day.
• Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
• People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.
• Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.
• A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
• Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
• I have motor oil running through my veins.
• I love working for a company full of geeks.
• When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation…
• For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of.
• Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and…
• When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
• To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.
• I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development…

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