Things looked kind of plastic and we thought:’What if the characters were made of plastic? What if they were toys?’ and it’s one of the reasons we leaned into making toys the subject of our feature film, ‘Toy Story.’. John Lasseter More Quotes by John Lasseter More Quotes From John Lasseter I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real. John Lasseter researchrealbelieve At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work. John Lasseter pixarmeetings Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. John Lasseter mediumsaudiencecinema I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults. John Lasseter adultskidsworld I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. John Lasseter parksjoycharacter Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. John Lasseter moviemotherbaby Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else. John Lasseter animationactiondesire 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 filmmakerresearchinspiration Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. John Lasseter challengesplaykids 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 shotsproducechance 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 beautifulbelievepast 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 good-movieartthinking Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way. John Lasseter heartpeopleway 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 genre-isshoesthinking 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 weekendhomecharacter The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others. John Lasseter benefitshelping-othershelping 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 individualartiststories We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films. John Lasseter heartbeautifullove You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth. John Lasseter uniqueartistmean I 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 twohandsart
