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.
Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.
If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.
The wonders of nature are endless.
It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.
Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.
I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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.
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
My business is making people, especially children, happy.
I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.
Laughter is no enemy to learning
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
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.
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.
Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.
To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.
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.
While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.
Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.
The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!
Fear too often spells failure.
The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.
Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.
In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
I'm doing this because I want to do it better.
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.
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURALWEALTH
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.
Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.
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.
