I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
