John Lasseter Quotes

Gravity Falls' didn't just appear overnight - every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists.

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

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.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.

I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

In addition to my comedic sensibilities, I also have a love of science. I think that it would be nice if, by the time we're doing the next version of 'Roger Rabbit,' it would be nice if I was receiving my Nobel prize the same week.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.