The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.
Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.
I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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.
If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Ideas come from curiosity.
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.
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.
Disneyland is a work of love.
Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.
Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
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.
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
The wonders of nature are endless.
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
My business is making people, especially children, happy.
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.
Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.
Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.
The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP
I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.
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.
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.
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.
My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.
Happiness is a state of mind.
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.
No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.
The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
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.
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.
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 don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
I'm doing this because I want to do it better.
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.
Fantasy and reality often overlap.
I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.
Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.
Fear too often spells failure.
Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
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.
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.
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.
