I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.