225 Quotes by John Lasseter

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

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.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.