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Walt Disney Quotes - Page 13

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Just remember, it all started with a mouse.

Just remember, it all started with a mouse.

Remember, Mice

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

Dream, Today, Eras

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.

Character, Feelings, Action

Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

Work Out, Matter, Events

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.

Mood, Very Happy

"Walt Disney: Ruler of the Magic Kingdom" by Richard Schickel, www.cnn.com. December 7, 1998.

The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.

Fun, Doors, Play

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.

Character, Men, Expression

Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.

Dream, Moving, Home

"The Gospel According to Disney : Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust". Book by Mark I. Pinsky, 2004.

I believe in being an innovator.

Change, Dream, Believe

"Cult of the Mouse : Can We Stop Corporate Greed From Killing Innovation in America?". Book by Henry M. Caroselli, 2004.

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.

Character, Depth, World

"How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.

Experiments, Stills, I Can

It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.

Developing, Finished, Disneyland

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.

Jobs, Team, People

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

Clever, Understanding, Brain

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.

Unique, People, Secret

No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.

Jobs, Business, Men

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

Fun, Unique, Want

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Life, Garden, Environment

its fun to do the unexpected.

Fun, Unexpected

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

Inspirational, Worry, Planning

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Fun, Heart, Laughing

We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

Technology, Epcot, Ideas

"EPCOT". Promotional film, www.imdb.com. February 2, 1967.

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

Firsts, Fantasy, Animated

We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.

School, Fighting, Thinking

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

Heart, Thinking, Long

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