“You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.”
“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”
“I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.”
“It's silly to build a wall around your interests.”
“In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.”
“A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.”
“There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.”
“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”
“Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.”
“I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.”
“We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.”
“Adults are only kids grown up”
“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”
“It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.”
“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”
“Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.”
“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.”
“I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.”
“The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.”
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
“Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.”
“You can't just let nature run wild.”
“I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.”
“Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”
“Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.”
