Quotes from John Lasseter

The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

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.

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

'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 have motor oil running through my veins.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.

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 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.

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

It's so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.