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. – John Lasseter
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family. – John Lasseter
Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers – even if you don’t see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. – John Lasseter
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. We don’t get scared and say, ‘Oh, no, this film isn’t working.’ – John Lasseter
I’ve noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did. – John Lasseter
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 what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it. – John Lasseter
Every movie has three things you have to do – you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important. – John Lasseter
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 of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes. – John Lasseter
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences. – John Lasseter
My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She’s a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She’s the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. – John Lasseter
At Pixar, we’ve been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable. – John Lasseter
When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you’re watching it, you have no idea why or what it’s about. – John Lasseter
When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, ‘Wow!’ – John Lasseter
Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent – finding the man of your dreams – have a limited shelf life. – John Lasseter
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 that? – John Lasseter
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 also love to be moved to tears. There’s lots of heart in our films. – John Lasseter
I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ and ‘Castle in the Sky’ are two of the great films that he’s made that I just love. – John Lasseter
The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view. – John Lasseter
People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don’t have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there’s this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. – John Lasseter
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, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that. – John Lasseter