225 Quotes by John Lasseter

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don’t have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there’s this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

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.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you’ll get a flood of motor oil.

I love movies that make me cry, because they’re tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the ‘heart’ is always the toughest, because you can’t tell people to feel a certain way.

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.

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.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what’s real.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds – something inside them is innately attracted to that ‘miniature’ realm.