Quotes from John Lasseter

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

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

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

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.

I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D!

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.

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!'

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time.

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

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.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

The iPad changed my life!

I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.

I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.

You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.