Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.