John Lasseter

“You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'”

“I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.”

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

“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.”

“At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.”

“I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.”

“I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.”

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

“I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.”

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

“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.”

“I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.”

“If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.”

“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.'”

“In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.”

“Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.”

“I love bringing the inanimate object to life.”

“When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.”

“Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.”

“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.”