In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit...
JOHN LASSETER Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deli...
JOHN LASSETER I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home...
JOHN LASSETER When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end....
JOHN LASSETER I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. ...
JOHN LASSETER We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for y...
JOHN LASSETER I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.
JOHN LASSETER People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are...
JOHN LASSETER Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky ...
JOHN LASSETER Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
JOHN LASSETER If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the...
JOHN LASSETER Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and belov...
JOHN LASSETER Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in t...
JOHN LASSETER I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.
JOHN LASSETER Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What ...
JOHN LASSETER Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
JOHN LASSETER Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business pl...
JOHN LASSETER What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.
JOHN LASSETER I have motor oil running through my veins.
JOHN LASSETER Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is t...
JOHN LASSETER 'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is t...
JOHN LASSETER My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still bu...
JOHN LASSETER People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.
JOHN LASSETER I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime a...
JOHN LASSETER At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn&#...
JOHN LASSETER Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding...
JOHN LASSETER When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be ali...
JOHN LASSETER I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry...
JOHN LASSETER The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
JOHN LASSETER Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
JOHN LASSETER You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones aro...
JOHN LASSETER Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.
JOHN LASSETER Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters with...
JOHN LASSETER There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chapl...
JOHN LASSETER A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career tha...
JOHN LASSETER I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Rat...
JOHN LASSETER My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked ...
JOHN LASSETER 'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It'...
JOHN LASSETER Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't th...
JOHN LASSETER The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing ...
JOHN LASSETER I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.
JOHN LASSETER I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this ...
JOHN LASSETER I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willi...
JOHN LASSETER I love working for a company full of geeks.
JOHN LASSETER Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, ...
JOHN LASSETER I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-dr...
JOHN LASSETER I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because i...
JOHN LASSETER Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz...
JOHN LASSETER Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately ...
JOHN LASSETER I love bringing the inanimate object to life.
JOHN LASSETER The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. A...
JOHN LASSETER The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it ...
JOHN LASSETER I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. I...
JOHN LASSETER I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed d...
JOHN LASSETER Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot ...
JOHN LASSETER A simple rule of thumb is that the more geometric something is, ... the easier it is to reproduce on...
JOHN LASSETER He has been a tremendous influence on my career and on most animators and animation directors around...
JOHN LASSETER He has been a tremendous influence on my career and on most animators and animation directors around...
JOHN LASSETER I promise you we will make films that entertain you the moment the lights go down. We're making Disn...
JOHN LASSETER Quality is a great business plan.
JOHN LASSETER Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
JOHN LASSETER 'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - t...
JOHN LASSETER Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to...
JOHN LASSETER Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don&#...
JOHN LASSETER At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, ...
JOHN LASSETER I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the mos...
JOHN LASSETER I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They&#...
JOHN LASSETER At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different...
JOHN LASSETER Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
JOHN LASSETER Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
JOHN LASSETER Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we k...
JOHN LASSETER I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips...
JOHN LASSETER In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
JOHN LASSETER The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it'...
JOHN LASSETER Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I th...
JOHN LASSETER I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertain...
JOHN LASSETER Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people ...
JOHN LASSETER I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always ...
JOHN LASSETER I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy ...
JOHN LASSETER If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese ...
JOHN LASSETER When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, lik...
JOHN LASSETER My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE