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" I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, 'You're only allowed to have this or that on your desk.' It's no fun to work at a place like that. "

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" We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out. "

John Lasseter

Young

Story

Talent

" When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing. "

" Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life. "

" Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice. "

" I'm a big Disneyland nut. "

" My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. "

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

" I try to make pictures I would want to see. "

" I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. "

" When you're a director, you really live whatever you do. "

" I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool. "

" Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important. "

" Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. "

" At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard. "

" In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family. "

" Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans. "

John Lasseter

Home

Sunday

" If you think something's stupid, it probably is. "

" The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company. "

" I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me. "

John Lasseter

Because

Mickey Mouse

" I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D! "

" We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story. "

" The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.' "

" As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas. "

" The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times. "

" The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view. "

John Lasseter

Perfect

Love

" Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. "

" When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about. "

" When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons. "

" A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences. "

" I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique. "