Quotes On Storytelling

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

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.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed... And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination...

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

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

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.