John Lasseter Quotes

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

I love great animation.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

I've loved all forms of animation.

There are so many sitcoms, especially in animation, that we've almost forgotten what animation was about - movement and visuals.

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

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.

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

I always wanted to do animation.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.

I've always been a fan of animation. As a kid, I used to watch a lot of the Saturday-morning cartoons, and I was always a fan of even claymation and that whole medium.