Quotes from John Lasseter

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

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.

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.

One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.

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.

True play is creativity.

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

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.

I believe God is in the details.

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

I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

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.

Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees.

I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.

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.'

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.

The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.