Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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.
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
You can't just let nature run wild.
The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.
People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.
I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
Fantasy and reality often overlap.
If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.
Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.
The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.
Just make sure you never do less than your best
You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.
We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.
Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
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.
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.
Ideas come from curiosity.
I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.
Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
Progress is impossible without change
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.
There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
Adults are only kids grown up
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.
Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.
I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.
If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.
Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?
