Producer Quotes

“Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.”

“Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.”

“I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.”

“The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.”

“I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”

“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.”

“The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!”

“I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.”

“The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.”

“I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.”

“I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.”

“My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.”

“In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.”

“Ideas come from curiosity.”

“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'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.”

“The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.”

“If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.”

“I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.”

“I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.”

“The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.”

“When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.”

“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.”

“After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”