I guess my favourite Disney film was ‘Snow White,’ which has a really dark moment when the evil queen turns into a witch and makes the poison apple. It was terrifying in the same way ‘Maleficent’ is.
Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
Even Disney – off the record, but on the record – knows that I have the power. They love me because of that. I don’t act like it. I’m not walking around all cocky, but the tables have turned.
My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.
That’s what’s cool about working for Disney: everyone gets along. It’s like a family.
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
I couldn’t watch ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘House’… I was like strictly a ‘SpongeBob,’ Disney Channel, Nickelodeon kinda guy.
I’ve made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I’ve always refused to sign.
The title ‘Spirited Away’ could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki’s epic and marvelous new anime fantasy.
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so… But I have no regrets, man. It’s just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he’ll bring me through this.
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ called ‘The Art of Animation.’ It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn’t considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
I don’t spend the whole off-season in Venezuela. I spend a couple of weeks in Cleveland, go to Florida, take my son to Disney World. But I still have my home, and my whole family lives in Venezuela.
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
I think nothing ever ends on Disney Channel. They keep playing it.
Disney is looking at growing in emerging markets – and for them India is an important market. They also recognize how important it is to partner with a local Indian company.
One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, ‘Hi Clint.’ I won’t ever forget that.
I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.
I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.
I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids.
The first Disney movie I saw I think was ‘Snow White.’ I loved all the Disney princess movies.
I watch a lot of Disney.
Disney World is exactly the wrong description of how the Secret Service should operate in public. Their jobs are not about pleasing adults and children, but rather protecting the president and the first family.
Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn’t even know that she’s a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She’s barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads… She’s a Renaissance woman.
Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it’s ‘Avengers Assemble’ or ‘Planes’ or straight-to-dvd work, it’s great.
I have daughters. They love Disney princesses.
After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney – until I’m old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
I grew up watching Pixar movies. And my favourite – if you don’t count ‘The Good Dinosaur’ – is the first Pixar movie my older brother showed me. That would be ‘Monsters, Inc.’ I also like Disney – ‘The Lion King’ is probably my all-time favourite movie.
‘Zootopia’ features such a large and diverse range of characters – one of our biggest casts ever for a Disney Animation film. We needed talented actors who could help bring these animals to life.
I’m a pretty big Disney geek.
And you know what – and I don’t mean this in tongue in cheek way – but it’s like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I’m walking into TNA and they’re producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.
I know that the work is good and they’re excited over at ABC and Disney and it’s getting some really good feedback. It’s not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It’s meaty, which is good.
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it’s not Disney. It’s the MMA. It’s a violent, brutal human war, with rules. The same guy who says, ‘I’m going to rob everybody,’ is the same guy who would be successful in the NFL.
One reason for keeping Disney animation separate from Pixar was that by solving their own problems when they finished a film, Disney could say, ‘Nobody bailed us out; we did it.’ And it’s a very important social thing for them to do that.
I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was ‘I don’t belong here.’ Then I said, ‘I’m here; let’s get on with it.’
Universal Orlando may have the new Harry Potter Wizarding World, but Disney World has the Hari Puttar Experience, based on the Bollywood movie, ‘Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors.’
I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it’s nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.
I’d love to do an action film. I’d love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read the book and then go see the movie. I’d love to have a show on Disney; I love working for them. And I’m also working on getting some new music out of my own.
I’m so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.
Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.
I love ‘Jungle Book’ and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are basically classic fables that have been told for thousands of years.
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I’ve been a Disney fan all my life.
In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.
Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make ‘entertainment for everyone.’
I think, so far, ‘Jessie’ has to be the show I’ve loved working on most. Coming in at age 12, I was so excited to work on Disney, since it had been my dream as a kid. I also feel like there was such a bond with that cast.
Don’t get me wrong: I love ‘Moana!’ But when it gets to the point where you find yourself singing Disney songs in your dreams, you have an issue.
When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella’s tights wouldn’t gather at her ankle when her foot bent, so I kept trying to make sure that I didn’t get those little creases on my ankle because Cinderella didn’t have them.
What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime – came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg – and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
If I had to define ‘sexy’ now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it’s about complete and utter confidence.
My whole life, I always wanted to be a Disney Channel kid.
For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this ‘Celebration’ village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
With ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ Disney was very excited about the movie I wanted to make; they were very supportive of it, and it was a smooth process. I was really surprised by that.
I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
When I blow a line at Disney I say, ‘Oh fudge,’ instead of what is really on mind.
I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we’ve seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka… and welcome to my chocolate factory.
I did this film called ‘Prom.’ It was a Disney movie. And at that point, I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I had no idea how to act. It was purely instinctual. I just remember the first scene I did and the first take, it feeling so right.
