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.
John LasseterIn dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
John LasseterWe 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 LasseterIf 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 LasseterAnimation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
John LasseterI believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
John LasseterDisney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
John LasseterIt’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.
John LasseterThere’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.
John LasseterPeople have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
John LasseterI 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 LasseterAnimation, 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.
John LasseterIn 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 LasseterDirecting 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.
John Lasseter'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
John LasseterAnimation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
John LasseterNever in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
John LasseterYou 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 LasseterThe 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.
John LasseterHumor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
John LasseterEvery 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 LasseterI 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.
John LasseterI 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.
John LasseterWhat'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.
John LasseterPeople 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 LasseterMy father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
John LasseterTo take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
John LasseterYou 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.
John LasseterThe more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
John LasseterThe 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.
John LasseterWhen 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.
John Lasseter'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.
John LasseterYou 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.
John LasseterSure, 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 LasseterYou cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
John LasseterThe 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.
John LasseterI always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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