Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.
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 LasseterThereโs 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 LasseterI 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 Lasseter