I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
From Walt Disney
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.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
I believe in being an innovator.
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