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.
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"I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man."
"The girl artists have the right to expect the same chances for advancement as men, and I honestly believe they may eventually contribute something to this business that men never would or could."
"At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks… until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in…"
"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."
"When you start to caricature a person, you can't do it without knowing the person."
Recounting the creation of Mickey Mouse during a period of financial difficulty.
Date: Approx. 1948 (20 years after Mickey's creation in 1928)
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