Latest John Lasseter Quotes from Interviews

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• Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

  John Lasseter

  Artist, Stories, Individual

  "Cars 2 - John Lasseter interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

  John Lasseter

  Memorable, Character, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

  John Lasseter

  Inspiration, Research, Filmmaker

  "John Lasseter Returns to Hand Drawn Animation with The Princess and the Frog". Interview with B. Alan Orange, www.movieweb.com. March 13, 2010.

• I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

  John Lasseter

  Believe, Quality, Best Business

  "John Lasseter Returns to Hand Drawn Animation with The Princess and the Frog". Interview with B. Alan Orange, www.movieweb.com. March 13, 2010.

• I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

  John Lasseter

  Fans, Animation, Wells

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Animation, 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

  Art, Thinking, Good Movie

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

  John Lasseter

  Beautiful, Believe, Past

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

  John Lasseter

  Beautiful, Art, Feelings

  "John Lasseter Returns to Hand Drawn Animation with The Princess and the Frog". Interview with B. Alan Orange, www.movieweb.com. March 13, 2010.

• 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

  Smart, Views, Perfect

  "John Lasseter Talks CARS 2, BRAVE and the Future of Pixar". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. May 29, 2011.

• What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.

  John Lasseter

  Fun, Writing, Artist

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• The 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 Lasseter

  Thinking, Genre Is, Shoes

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

  John Lasseter

  Water, Bigs, Really Great

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Kids, Ideas

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

  John Lasseter

  Memorable, Character, Successful

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

  John Lasseter

  Kids, Adults, World

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.

  John Lasseter

  Home, Character, People

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

  John Lasseter

  Home, Character, Weekend

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

• The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

  John Lasseter

  Reality, Looks, Littles

  "PR Interviews with 'Bolt' Co-Directors and Exec. Producer John Lasseter". Interview with Ed Liu, www.toonzone.net. March 25, 2009.

• 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 Lasseter

  Believe, Add, Needs

  "John Lasseter Gives the Lowdown on Bolt". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 23, 2009.

• To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

  John Lasseter

  Successful, Artist, Player

  "John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki Comic-Con Interview". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 24, 2009.

• One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

  John Lasseter

  Chance, Produce, Shots

  "Exclusive: John Lasseter, Larry the Cable Guy on the DVD release of Cars 2". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2011.