The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

He gave me the one thing he's never given to anyone before..He gave me his heart, and his trust.And in return, I gave him the same right back....

In an infinite Universe anything can happen, " said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

The ultimate comfort zone is within.