John Lasseter Quotes

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.