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
I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
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.
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
I never intended to make art.
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.
The small amount of these activities shown in our films essentially depict villains or characterize these activities as unwholesome.
The workers in mainland China and inside the Disney park, their salaries are very low and the work days are very long,
Teenagers have to discover the product. (Then) they tell their friends and it grows through a grass roots marketing effort
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You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
Girls bored me, they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.