Quotes from John Lasseter

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

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

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

I love working for a company full of geeks.

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.

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

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

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

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

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.

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.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

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.

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.'

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked.