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.
John LasseterSlice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.
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 LasseterNever in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
John Lasseter