John Lasseter Quotes

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

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

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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

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 a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

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.

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

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

I've loved all forms of animation.

If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.

I always wanted to do animation.

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.

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

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.

I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films.

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

If I hadn't gone into acting, then I would have perhaps become an animator.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

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