John Lasseter on story and animation

    Cars 2 director John Lasseter discuss about story and animation. Lasseter said many things like- “No amount of great animation will save a bad story.” He then said something that was over rated. I didn't think that the guy that did the story for Toy Story 3 said this-

   “People say ‘It’s all about the story.’ When you’re making tentpole films, bulls***.”

     He then started to using Disney's last project Alice in Wonderland as an example saying- “The story isn’t very good, but visual spectacle brought people in droves. And Johnny Depp didn’t hurt.”
   So, I don't know what the culprit is hear.