John Lasseter Quotes

I love great animation.

I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

I've loved all forms of animation.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.

I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

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.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.