Walt Disney Quotes on Film
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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.
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I don't make films for children. I make films that children aren't embarrassed to take their parents to.
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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)
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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.
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The medium of animated film is perhaps the most flexible, versatile, and stimulating of all teaching faculties.
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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.