In this volatile business of ours, we can ill afford to rest on our laurels, even to pause in retrospect. Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
You reach a point where you don’t [...]
If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
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.
Our [...]
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.
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
Sheer animated fantasy is still my [...]
Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It’s unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don’t work for a dollar, you work to create and have fun.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
Cartoon animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure.
In learning the art [...]
I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing that it was all started by a mouse.
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
He popped out of [...]