I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
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.
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
I believe in being an innovator.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
You can't just let nature run wild.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
