Walt Disney Quotes
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I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
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At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.
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Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.
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Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
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The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.
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If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.
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Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.
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Nothing is impossible.
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We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.
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It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.
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I'm doing this because I want to do it better.
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The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.
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You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
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Fear too often spells failure.
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Fantasy and reality often overlap.
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We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.
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It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
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There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
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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.