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
pixar meetings
At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
beautiful watches today
'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.
unique voice vision
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.
thinking skills creative
When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
kids fishing worry
I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.
creating world film
Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
movie mother baby
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
character joy parks
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
heart people way
Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
movie real thinking
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?
love beautiful heart
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.
artist stories individual
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.
character stories imagery
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
art hands two
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.