I just devoured all of his [Buster Keatonโs] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. Heโs 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 soโฆsophisticated, even when you watch it today.
John LasseterThe more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
John LasseterYou cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
John LasseterThe 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 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 Lasseter