Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can’t see the actor, when it’s just the voice. – John Lasseter
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. – John Lasseter
Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it’s known today, and I’ve been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation. – John Lasseter
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
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 need. – John Lasseter
I am so proud that ‘Up’ is Pixar’s 10th film. I think it’s the funniest film that we’ve ever made and also one of the most beautiful. – John Lasseter
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
In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn’t mean you should do everything you want. – John Lasseter
I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter. – John Lasseter
When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing. – John Lasseter
The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it’s never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company. – John Lasseter
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 cartoons. – John Lasseter
I’m really proud of ‘Cars.’ ‘Cars,’ when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film. – John Lasseter
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ called ‘The Art of Animation.’ It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn’t considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons. – John Lasseter
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
I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what’s real. – John Lasseter
People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that. – John Lasseter
Pixar’s short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development. – John Lasseter
I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn’t anything called a video game. When ‘Pong’ came out, it was awesome. – John Lasseter
Look at the films of Walt Disney: ‘Snow White’ came out in February 1938, and I can’t think of another film from that year that’s watched as much. The same is true of ‘Bambi,’ ‘Dumbo’… even, frankly, ‘Toy Story,’ which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995. – John Lasseter
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 that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey. – John Lasseter