I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

— John Lasseter

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

— John Lasseter

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

— John Lasseter

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

— John Lasseter

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

— John Lasseter

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

— John Lasseter

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

— John Lasseter

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

— John Lasseter

Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticized ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.

— John Lasseter

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.

— John Lasseter