I believe in being an innovator.
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Deeds, rather than words, express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
THEY WANT EVIL? WE'LL SHOW THESE SUCKERS EVIL. AURADON PREP KIDS WILL GET WHAT'S COMING TO THEM. MALEFICENT'S DAUGHTER IS BACK.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Why would I want to be President of the United States? I'm the King of Disneyland.
I have always wanted to leave the village and seek adventure. I long to be remembered for something, even if that something is merely the pursuit of my dreams.
To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
How can you read this? There's no pictures!
Maleficent, calling upon the powers of hell.
Mal spray-painted an M onto a shower curtain. Jay stole a teapot.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
If you can dream it you can do it.
For every laugh, there should be a tear.
I want adventure in the great wide somewhere.
Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on..
I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in our future.
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether he be six or sixty. Call the child innocence.
Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes.
It ‘s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
Everybody in the world was once a child. We grow up. Our personalities change. But in every one of us, something remains of our childhood.
A 2003 television version of the story that she produced did not quite fit the bill.
It all started with a mouse.
There is more treasure in books, than in all the pirates loot on treasure Island.
Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.
George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Riley knew that she and Lucas could have a story—a potentially amazing story—ahead of them. But it was never going to be told unless she took that leap and talked to him.
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Some dream it, some do it, some do both.
Remember, you're the one who can fill the world with sunshine.
Keep Moving Forward.
Personality with.
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
That's the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
