Zitat des Tages von John Lasseter:
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, 'You're only allowed to have this or that on your desk.' It's no fun to work at a place like that.
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of.
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
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.
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.
People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
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.
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 a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
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 believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.
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 do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
I laugh very hard at work every day.
The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.