Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don’t like your face, it’s babaric, but hey, it’s home.
Laughter is America’s most important export.
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
If I can’t find a theme, I can’t make a film anyone else will feel. I can’t laugh at intellectual humor. I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart...
I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.
I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.
When you go to bat as many times as I do, you’re bound to get a good average. That’s why I keep my projects diversified.
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
Fantasy and reality often overlap.
A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.
Direct and easy communications – freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense – has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
I believe that laughter is our greatest export.
I am not interested in what a man can’t do. I want to know what he CAN do.
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.
I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.