Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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.
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
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.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
I believe in being an innovator.
I don’t pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
The wonders of nature are endless...
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
I’m not the perfectionist anymore. It’s my staff. They’re the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
Money doesn’t excite me – my ideas excite me.
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
In bad times and in good I’ve never lost my sense of zest for life.
Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together – and that’s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families – that’s what we hope to do.
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.