Author Profile
John Lasseter
1957 • American • Director
63
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 63 quotesPixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.— John Lasseter
I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome.— John Lasseter
At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.— John Lasseter
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.— John Lasseter
Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.— John Lasseter
When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.— John Lasseter
Every 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 Lasseter
Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.— John Lasseter
The specific influences on villains to me is, 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.— John Lasseter
The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.— John Lasseter
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.— John Lasseter
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.— John Lasseter
When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'— John Lasseter