John Lasseter

“Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.”

“I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.”

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

“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.”

“When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.”

“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.”

“'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.”

“Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.”

“In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.”

“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.”

“When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.”

“There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.”

“When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.”

“Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.”

“I think the best movie ever made was 'Dumbo.'”

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

“When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.”