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" 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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Great

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" There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them. "

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" 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. "

" Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating. "

" At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten. "

" Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about. "

John Lasseter

Most

Here

" The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town. "

" We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films. "

" Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. "

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

" You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.' "

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

John Lasseter

Made

Making

" If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is. "

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

" Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars. "

" True play is creativity. "

" I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "

" I love working for a company full of geeks. "

" 'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story. "

" 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

Game

Think

" I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real. "

" I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives. "

John Lasseter

Great

Busy

" I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter. "

" Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995. "

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