Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
John LasseterRead
Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
Interpretation
Pixar films may not depict reality, but they create credible and relatable worlds within their storytelling.
John Lasseter's quote highlights the essence of animated storytelling in Pixar films. While these films may not strictly adhere to realism, they craft believable narratives and characters that resonate with audiences, allowing viewers to suspend disbelief and engage with the fantastical worlds the studio creates. This balance between imagination and relatability is what makes Pixar's storytelling so powerful and effective.
In practice
During a film festival discussion, a filmmaker references this quote to highlight creative freedom in animation.
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.
At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
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.
The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone_x000D_ And defecating on your microphone.
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.
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