Quote

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?

John Lasseter

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
Animator
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Hollywood
California
John Alan Lasseter
John A. Lasseter
Movies
Thinking
Movie
Actors
Real
Tapping
Make
Afterwards
Always
Cry
Love
Emotion
Think

More quotes by John Lasseter

Image
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
Image
'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.
John Lasseter
Image
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
Image
One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
John Lasseter
Image
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
Image
One of the fun things about play is making up stories.
John Lasseter
Image
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
John Lasseter
Image
When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
John Lasseter
Image
To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
John Lasseter
Image
Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
John Lasseter
Image
Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
John Lasseter
Image
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
Image
I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
John Lasseter
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
John Lasseter
Image
A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.
John Lasseter
Image
The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.
John Lasseter
Image
I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.
John Lasseter
Image
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
John Lasseter