Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Jeffrey Katzenberg

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American producer Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American film producer and media proprietor. He became well known for his tenure as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994. After departing Disney, he was a co-founder and CEO of DreamWorks Animation, where he oversaw the production of such animated franchises as Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon. He has since founded a new media and technology company called WndrCo and was the founder of Quibi, a defunct short-form mobile video platform.

I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that.
The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.
A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content. — © Jeffrey Katzenberg
A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
Inspiration comes from all different places.
It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.
Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before.
I dare you to be married for 44 years and exceed anyone's expectations.
One of the things that has happened for me is that whatever came next was better than what I had before.
You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.
If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.
Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.
Ron Howard is a great filmmaker and also a great storyteller in 60- and 30-minute shows, so why isn't he going to be a great storyteller in 10-minute pieces?
The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.
Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.
I haven't got a lot of patience.
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.
Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.
I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world. — © Jeffrey Katzenberg
I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.
When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.
I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past.
If you go running, you put on sneakers. When you go bowling, you take your personal bowling balls with you. In much the same fashion, it won't be long before you have your special sunglasses to take to the movie theater.
Movies are not a growth business.
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