Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. – John Lasseter
There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. – John Lasseter
I’ve always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early ’80s. – John Lasseter
I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, ‘You’re only allowed to have this or that on your desk.’ It’s no fun to work at a place like that. – John Lasseter
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. – John Lasseter
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 it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. – John Lasseter
Nobody pays attention to the way a person’s shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you’d notice it. – John Lasseter
Walt Disney always said, ‘For every laugh, there should be a tear.’ I believe in that. – John Lasseter
When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids. – John Lasseter
At Pixar, ‘Wall-E’ was our ninth film, and they’ve all been successes – more than that, they’ve all really touched people. Everybody wonders, ‘How do you do it?’ Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard. – John Lasseter
I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no ‘behind closed doors’ with me. – John Lasseter
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 as you drive and listen? No, it’s the storytelling. That’s why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story. – John Lasseter
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them. – John Lasseter
‘Cars 2’ is about a character learning to be himself. There’s times in our lives where people always say, ‘Well, you’ve gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.’ That’s the emotional core of the story. – John Lasseter
Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with ‘The Jazz Singer’ or the first colour or surround sound – it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. – John Lasseter
To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. – John Lasseter
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 than the story. – John Lasseter
You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that’s making great movies and going, ‘Oh, we see the difference – we’re using a different camera.’ – John Lasseter
I can’t tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don’t really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure. – John Lasseter
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can’t just tell them, ‘Ok, be sad now.’ – John Lasseter
The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we’ve been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: ‘Make it great.’ – John Lasseter