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Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

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.

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 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.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

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.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.