I love Pixar films; I think they’re the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. ‘Tangled,’ was great. I loved ‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ the Dreamworks film. But it’s not for me. I don’t want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.
We love the great Disney songs – they have always inspired us in our work and in our lives! But for ‘Let It Go,’ we looked elsewhere – to powerful female singer-songwriters like Tori Amos, Aimee Mann, Sara Bareilles, Adele.
I honestly thought that ‘Tangled’ was going to be my Disney legacy.
How many mothers have emerged from a family trip to a Disney movie and been obliged to explain the facts of death to their sobbing young? A conservative estimate: the tens of millions, since the studio’s first animated feature, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ premiered in 1937.
At Christmas time, I spent an extortionate amount of money on Buzz Lightyear toys, baby clothes, Disney cars and the like.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney – his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
I don’t remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando. It wasn’t the rides but Epcot Center that most fascinated me. It made me want to see those countries that are represented there for real.
I’ve never met a Mormon I didn’t like. They’re really nice people. They’re so Disney. They’re so Rodgers and Hammerstein.
I’d just woken up from a nap, it was around 6:30 in the evening. I was eating some shrimp crackers at my desk. Then I get a call from an unknown number in Burbank, California and my heart immediately skips a beat because I know the Disney home office is in Burbank.
If you look at Disney’s slate compared to the other Hollywood studios, it stands out because of big titles and strong franchise films which also extend beyond cinemas, to merchandising or theme parks given the legacy of the four brands – Disney, Pixar, Marvel and now Lucasfilm.
I grew up in California, I’m a Disney employee, and I have never been to a park, outside of living in one for 107 days. So now I’m on a mission to go for real.
I was around when there was only one channel and when that second channel arrived, it came with the wonderful world of Disney on a Sunday night. We would drop our bicycles and run home to see it, it was just pure escapism.
I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
I’m not one of these Disney haters. I’m really appreciative of the foundation it laid for me.
I never thought I’d be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney.
At the end of the day on ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ if we didn’t nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with ‘A Ghost Story,’ it was all on the line.
Romance is dead – it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Of my Disney material, ‘Tangled’ is my most pop-oriented.
I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they’re very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
Look at the films of Walt Disney: ‘Snow White’ came out in February 1938, and I can’t think of another film from that year that’s watched as much. The same is true of ‘Bambi,’ ‘Dumbo’… even, frankly, ‘Toy Story,’ which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
The new Disney cartoon ‘Bambi’ is interesting because it’s the first one that’s been entirely unpleasant.
When I was a kid, Disney was one of my gods. I just loved movies like ‘Snow White’ and ‘Pinocchio.’
I’ve always been inspired by retail entertainment, whether Ralph Lauren or the Disney Store or Niketown.
Walt Disney wasn’t making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren’t making them for kids.
I’ve been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM’s, which itself was derived from the MIT ‘Institute Professor’ program.
We are Disney, in a sense. When you’ve been there for 20 years, there’s a certain heart and soul to one of those films, and you inhabit that to a certain degree. So if it feels true to you, then your audience will hopefully go for it.
Pixar’s short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.
Don’t let the Disney princess hair fool you.
I’m not sure if it’s fair to call it a ‘fairy tale,’ but I really loved ‘Mulan,’ the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it’s not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.
Disney hovers over every decision at ESPN.
I’m saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
I’m a lifelong Disney nut.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
I’ve ended up working with Disney a lot, which is kind of peculiar. In theater, I’ve done a couple of projects with them and written a couple movies and whatnot.
I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.
But it’s a Broadway show, so even if you’re Christine in Phantom, you’re still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they’re Disney princesses or not.
I’m a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
I’m not good at Disney acting. I’m really not. I never was on that audition list, which I don’t mind. I don’t know. I look back, and I’m kind of wiping my forehead at the thought of, ‘What if I had gone that route?’
The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.
I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don’t want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.
Having portrayed a lot of villainous characters in Telugu cinema, voicing Scar was a different and memorable experience for me, and I was glad to be part of such a grand big-ticket entertainer. Disney films are a perfect package for the entire family and I hope to lend my trademark style to ‘The Lion King’ as well!
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go – production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.
Whether people agree or disagree with the decisions an actor makes after their Disney tenure, every alum has a clear vision of how they want their career to pan out.
It’s weird, but I don’t feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There’s really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.
Disney World was tough because you do a lot of walking, but it was worth it. To see the smiles on the faces of my kids and the memories that we made makes it all worth it.
Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.
I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.
I don’t expect to be another Walt Disney, but I do get a terrific bang out of being able to say things with pictures. Maybe that means something deep and profound about me – but I doubt it.
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman’s idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman’s idea of the real.
People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons.
I’d love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.
My brother Ryan was on the Disney XD show ‘Pair of Kings’ where he played Lanny, the evil cousin to twin kings, for three seasons. His motivation to be a better actor always pushes me to work harder and try to be more like him. When he gets a role, he will study that character until he becomes that person.
The videos that I post every day are averaging 7 million views per day. And I post one of those a day. I spend an average of $200 a day to make that. The Disney show that I’m on, they spend $2 million over the course of five days to create one episode that gets 1.7 million views.
