I grew up on 'Spongebob.' If I had known there was an even better cartoon out there like 'X-Men,' you best believe I would have grown up on that.
My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in 'Up.'
I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
I watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn't make me start dressing in drag.
I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die
Of course when you toss a stick of dynamite at a cartoon character, he can come back to life again in the next frame. Getting the same effect with actors is going to be a lot tougher.
I didn't want to act in high school, because I was sick of auditioning for Nickelodeon, Disney mean girls, or the cheerleader.
If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
Sometimes I fantasize about becoming a cartoon and only making music for cartoons. I can easily visualize my future in music when I go into that fantasy in my head.
I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
My tenure has been abnormally long for the average Disney kid - most only last three or four years.
I'd like to just say that there's nothing darker than 'Old Yeller' and 'Bambi' and some of the early Disney stuff.
It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.
Music has been of central importance to Disney movies for as long as I can remember. To contribute to that legacy, is a great honor.
I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.
If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it's 'Avengers Assemble' or 'Planes' or straight-to-dvd work, it's great.
Several times I drew a critical cartoon and then, at the last moment, stopped myself from putting it out in print. I thought it would be misunderstood, be a politically incorrect thing to do.
Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
Disney movies are a great outing for the entire family, and my children are huge fans of their classics, especially 'The Lion King.'
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.
When I look back at old footage of me back in the early '90s, it almost looks like a cartoon character, or something.
Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.
Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.
With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.
Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.
There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.
The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.
I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.
I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.
No health care for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're (Pres. Bush) slowly going from being Nixon to Mr. Burns.
Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.
I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.
I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.
At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.
Let me tell you one thing: there is no more cutthroat place to be than an independent film. Disney is a cakewalk after that - that is no lie.
Homer Simpson has been more inspirational to me than probably any cartoon character. What he represents, I think, there's a part of that in everybody. There certainly is in me, and I love that.
I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
Each Disney princess is unique in their own way, but Moana is especially close to my heart because she's Polynesian.
The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.
I know people look at the Disney Channel as... a specific thing. But all the actors from 'Austin and Ally' - honestly, they're really good.
If at some point Fox decides that the X-Men properties are no longer lucrative I'm sure that they will cut a deal with Disney.
If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.
I'll always be a Disneyland guy. I grew up going there, it's the original, but I love Disney World, I come out here all the time.
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.
I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.
If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.
One day I'd love to release a coffee table book of all the crazy notes I got from Disney Channel's S&P and legal department.
If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film
Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
I love my Disney fans. A lot of the kids want to grow up and push away from that image, but I don't feel that way at all.
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