American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards earned and nominations by an individual.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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 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.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Laughter is America's most important export.
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.