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.
What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.
I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
I'm a big Disneyland nut.
The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.
When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.
Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.
I love working for a company full of geeks.
Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.
I love bringing the inanimate object to life.
The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.