Lisa Frank Quotes

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Disneyland is a work of love.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

I kind of feel like I grew up at Disneyland.

I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration of what God could do if He had more imagination.

Disneyland is Vegas for children.

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

I try to convey this feeling of being innocent in a mystical state, being in a place that's new, seeing things with brand new eyes, for better or worse. I just imagine this little kid floating on a beautiful king-size bed over the city at night, seeing all sorts of crazy stuff happening in the world. To me, half the fun is all the stories other people have.

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.