Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

You can't just let nature run wild.

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.