Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disneywas an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer he received 22 Academy Awards from 59 nominations and has won more individual Oscars than anyone else. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and one Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 December 1901
CityChicago, IL
Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.
To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.
Fear too often spells failure.
We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.
EPCOT will be an experimental prototype community of tomorrow that will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.
Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.
Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.
If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.
Disneyland is a work of love.
You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.