Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether he be six or sixty. Call the child innocence.
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.
In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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.
I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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.
I am corny, you know? But I think there are just about 140 million people in this country who are just as corny as I am.
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.
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