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I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart.

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

Disney is a place that I've always rooted for, and I think the audience does also because we have a deep, deep love for what that means.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.

I love my Disney fans. A lot of the kids want to grow up and push away from that image, but I don't feel that way at all.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.