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I could not possibly see how we could top pigs with pigs. “We kept fooling around with the Silly Symphonies until we came up with ‘The Three Little Pigs’ (1933). Sometimes I pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming.” – “What Has Disney Got that We Haven’t?” by Frank Taylor The Commentator magazine October 1938 I’m just as amazed at the success of our cartoons as anyone else. So I try to put the idea to work in the next picture. “No matter how good a picture we turn out, I can always see ways to improve it, when it’s too late.

But when they see a good one somebody else has made they charge out and work twice as hard.” – “Walt Disney Spurning $8 Million in TV Offers” for the United Press International with reporter Virginia MacPherson December 18, 1952 That tends to make everybody here get fat and lazy and smug. “I never show a bad cartoon from another studio. Then he has to be pampered and pulled out of his slump with all the diplomacy that would be used on coaxing a (movie) star.” – Odgen Standard Examiner newspaper May 12 1935 “Occasionally one will have an off day on which he can’t draw anything worth while. Say, they can be just as bad as any star you ever saw. But don’t ever think animators can’t be temperamental. It’s true I never have any trouble with Mickey, the three pigs or any of my characters. “I’ve often been told how lucky I am not to have any stars to go temperamental on me. Lutz which I procured from the Kansas City Public Library.” – Letter from Walt Disney to Miss Irene Gentry of the Kansas City Library in Missouri August 17, 1937 “In Kansas City, when I became seriously interested in cartooning, I gained my first information on animation from a book written by E.C. Here are a few that relate to animation that readers may not have seen or may not remember: Over the decades, I have collected quotes by Walt Disney from magazines, newspapers, interviews and more.

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