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
beauty disney fairy quite since sincere tale understood
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.
came mediocre pixar proud reviews
I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
If you think something's stupid, it probably is.
flag japanese main seen
If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.
designing great months motion pictures promise ride start understood
I never understood why you wouldn't start designing a ride when you start making a film so two months after a film comes out you have a ride. I promise you we are not only going to make great motion pictures we are going to make great rides.
boys college missed nancy nonstop wife
I had been working nonstop through the '90s ... and my wife Nancy said, 'Be careful, your boys may go off to college and you will have missed it.
art looking los watching
Even if I can't be in Los Angeles, I can be watching reels. I can be looking at the art direction.
head physical presence remains turn
Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.
bounce developing needed pretend starting
As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.
art inspires technology
Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
difficult easier flat geometric organic perfect reproduce rule simple thumb
A simple rule of thumb is that the more geometric something is, ... the easier it is to reproduce on a computer. The more organic something is, the more difficult it is to reproduce on computer. And so, hence, 'Toy Story' was the perfect story for our first film -- man-made world, man-made environment, flat floors. 'A Bug's Life,' there is nothing geometric about this movie.
I try to make pictures I would want to see.
nature people power
It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.