John Lasseter Quotes

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

I don't watch too many films.

I have more fun talking about other movies than talking about my own.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

I love IMDB. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.

Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.

Cinema is not part of my entertainment.

I choose movies with caution.

Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.

Sometimes, I check out film sites if a friend sends me the URL.

In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.