Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
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 take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artists to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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.
No matter how talented you are, your talent will fail you, if you're not skilled. Skill is achieved through practice. Work hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day. - Will Smith
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. - Will Smith
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