John Lasseter Quotes

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

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

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.