I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.
Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.
That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.
Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.
The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.
I’ve always been bored with just making money. I’ve wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.
Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
All right. I’m corny. But I think there’s just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.
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.
Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.
But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.