John Lasseter
John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseteris an American animator and film director, who is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and DisneyToon Studios. He is also the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth12 January 1957
CountryUnited States of America
fun play stories
One of the fun things about play is making up stories...
father four pearls
My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
kids play challenges
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.
running blood veins
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
waiting saws dimensions
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
careers people cartoon
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
entertainment economic whole-family
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
talking pun ifs
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
jobs creative talent
There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
desire action animation
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
joy different film
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.
character cartoon today
I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.
mean unique thinking
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.
journey car enjoy-life
'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.