| "Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time." |
| "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse." |
| "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." |
| �I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child innocence. The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.� |
| �Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.� |
| �The way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won�t keep kids out of trouble. But keeping their minds occupied will.� |
| �That�s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don�t remember what it�s like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won�t do that. I�ll temper a story, yes. But I won�t play down, and I won�t patronize.� |
| �A man should never neglect his family for business.� |
| "Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either." |
| "If you can dream it, you can do it." |
| "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." |
| �The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together�and that�s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families�that�s what we hope to do.� |
| �Laughter is America�s most important export.� |
| �Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.� |
| "We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin- a little fellow trying to do the best he could." |
| "He [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." |
| "When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." |
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