You don’t build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.
Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.
I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.
I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.
My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.
I don’t know if it’s art, but I know I like it.
I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
You know, the only way I’ve found to make these pictures is with animators. You can’t seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
If I depended on critics and children to make a living I’d grow broke.
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
The fun is in always building something. After it’s built, you play with it awhile and then you’re through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We’re always opening up new doors.
In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character – or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
I’m doing this because I want to do it better.
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.
Disneyland is a work of love.
The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project – in fact, the heart of everything we’ll be doing in Disney World – will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.