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. – John Lasseter
The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times. – John Lasseter
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. – John Lasseter
There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them. – John Lasseter
I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me. – John Lasseter
I do what I do because of Walt Disney – his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. – John Lasseter
Computers don’t create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. – John Lasseter
I don’t really think of myself as a businessman at all. That’s why I have the ‘chief creative officer’ role. – John Lasseter
Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It’s what you do with the medium. – John Lasseter
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It’s fairly cheap entertainment; it’s classic escapism. – John Lasseter
‘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
At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn’t work. – John Lasseter
I’ve often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. ‘They’re never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.’ I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. – John Lasseter
At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original. – John Lasseter
I think ‘Disney Infinity’ is exciting. It’s hard to even call it a video game, because it’s so different. What excites me about this is how it’s going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it’s up to them. You can play it to where everything’s laid out for you. – John Lasseter
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. – John Lasseter
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. – John Lasseter
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. – John Lasseter
When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held. – John Lasseter
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. – John Lasseter
I never quite understood why Disney hadn’t made a sincere fairy tale since ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ – John Lasseter
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
