225 Quotes by John Lasseter

Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.

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.

We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.

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.

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!'

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

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.

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.