“Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child.”

— Walt Disney

So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.
Recorded statement (1938) used in The Pixar Story (2008)

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American film producer and businessman 1901–1966

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