6 Walt Disney Quotes on Film

Walt Disney quotes on film

64. A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

81. I don't make films for children. I make films that children aren't embarrassed to take their parents to.

99. I want people to graduate from there really able to do things. I don't want a lot of theorists. I want to have a school that turns out people that know all the facts of filmaking, I want them to be capable of doing anything needed to make a film - photograph it, direct it, design it, animate it, record it, whatever. That's what I want. Heck, I've hired theorists, and they don't have any knowledge I can use. I want to have everyone in that school come out capable of going in and doing a job. These dilettantes who come out with pseudo-knowledge, they give me a pain. I want it so if an actor is needed, they can get an actor right out of school. If a musician is needed, they can go to the music department and find a musicians who can compose music. **On CALarts (California Institute of the Arts)

109. If the audience is conscious of the music during the screening of a picture (not a musical), it is over-written. Music should augment the story, not take over.

150. The medium of animated film is perhaps the most flexible, versatile, and stimulating of all teaching faculties.

192. Despite the absence of a unifying 'story' in Fantasia, there are along the way images and sequences with implications and messages - inspirational and disturbing, subtle and strong, scientific and pagan and Christian - all worth noting.