"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."

"I think I've created the best little mouse in the world."

"Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you'r…"