John Lasseter
You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.Collection: Memorable
There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.Collection: Character
The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.Collection: Helping Others
I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.Collection: Beautiful
I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.Collection: Kids
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?"Collection: Movie
I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.Collection: Beautiful
Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.Collection: Heart
When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.Collection: Children
I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.Collection: Believe
This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.Collection: Inspiration
You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.Collection: Mean
You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.Collection: Home
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. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.Collection: Believe
Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.Collection: Motor Oil
To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.Collection: Successful
Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.Collection: Giving
To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.Collection: Attention
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the artsCollection: Mother
Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.Collection: Art
One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.Collection: Chance
Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.Collection: Artist
I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.Collection: Home
The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.Collection: Thinking
People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.Collection: Real
I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.Collection: Character
A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.Collection: Joy
When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.Collection: Thinking
The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.Collection: Growing Up
One of the fun things about play is making up stories.Collection: Fun
The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.Collection: Reality
I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.Collection: Fans
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.Collection: Smart
What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.Collection: Fun
I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.Collection: Growing Up
One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.Collection: Water
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.’Collection: Actors
What’s fun about the story development at Pixar is it’s a journey. You don’t just write a script and then that’s the movie you make. It’s just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.Collection: Fun
One of the fun things about play is making up stories...Collection: Fun