Disney, for all his pining for a perfect world (embodied in his depiction of a turn-of-the-century Main Street), did not entirely ignore the authentic. He did kill Bambi's mom, remember. He did permit, perhaps encourage, the occasional sense of danger.

Walt wanted to communicate with a global audience. ... He wanted to communicate with a multicultural audiance.

Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have…

Walt Disney had a saying that he doesn't make movies for children, but he makes movies for the child in all of us. As a film maker I guess that's all you can r…

I said, `Now, wait a minute, so you're telling me you want this fish who lives in a fish tank in a dentist's office to be a fictitious character from an NBC si…

With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.