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" 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. "

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" I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you. "

John Lasseter

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" I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful. "

John Lasseter

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" I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself. "

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

John Lasseter

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" Pixar is not about computers, it's about people. "

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

" My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. "

" In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture. "

" Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. "

" 'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital. "

John Lasseter

Car

" I think the best movie ever made was 'Dumbo.' "

" Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. "

" The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.' "

John Lasseter

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" Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. "

" When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart. "

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

" 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. "

" There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. "

" I'm a big Disneyland nut. "

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

" People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. "

" 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. "

" Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. "

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

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

" What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it. "

" Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it. "

" When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!' "

" The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. "

" My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad. "