01c. 1978 ADToday, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.John Lasseter / quote ↗
02c. 1978 ADI loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.John Lasseter / quote ↗
03c. 1978 ADI love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.John Lasseter / quote ↗
04c. 1978 ADFortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.John Lasseter / quote ↗
05c. 1978 ADComputers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.John Lasseter / quote ↗
07c. 1978 ADMy mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.John Lasseter / quote ↗
08c. 1978 ADSunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.John Lasseter / quote ↗
09c. 1978 AD'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.John Lasseter / quote ↗
10c. 1978 ADA good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.John Lasseter / quote ↗
11c. 1978 AD'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.John Lasseter / quote ↗
12c. 1978 ADI worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.John Lasseter / quote ↗
13c. 1978 ADThere is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.John Lasseter / quote ↗
14c. 1978 AD'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 Lasseter / quote ↗
15c. 1978 ADWhen you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.John Lasseter / quote ↗
16c. 1978 ADIf 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 Lasseter / quote ↗
17c. 1978 ADYou never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'John Lasseter / quote ↗
18c. 1978 ADI love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.John Lasseter / quote ↗
19c. 1978 ADEvery single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'John Lasseter / quote ↗
21c. 1978 ADI quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.John Lasseter / quote ↗
22c. 1978 ADThe 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.'John Lasseter / quote ↗
23c. 1978 ADThe art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.John Lasseter / quote ↗
24c. 1978 ADEvery young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.John Lasseter / quote ↗
