The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
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I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.
A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.
Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.
I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.
When it comes to classic Disney, I've got it in my DNA. I mean, the guy who trained me, the man who mentored me when I first came to the Studio was Eric Larson, one of Walt's Nine Old Men.
I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.