When I look at the success I have, it’s because of my creative thinking skills.
Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.
People have a real love of looking at small worlds – something inside them is innately attracted to that ‘miniature’ realm.
Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody’s ever seen before.
One of the fun things about play is making up stories...
My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
I’ve got Disney blood running through my veins.
There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There’s lots of heart in our films.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you’ll get a flood of motor oil.
The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.
To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
Humor is the easiest to achieve; the ‘heart’ is always the toughest, because you can’t tell people to feel a certain way.
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.