Ronnie Screwvala Quotes

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

I'm trying to build a Disney. Not only as a creator, but also be able to create universes where then that content can go into toys, and live on multimedia platforms, whether it's apps, books, movies, cartoons. It's like building a whole world, which takes a lot of money.

These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

I have always really liked creating family entertainment, and Disney does that really well.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.'

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

When you run the Walt Disney Co., you gain a fair amount of experience in customer-facing businesses, particularly in site-based entertainment. I have a lot of experience in marketing, a lot of experience in selling, particularly tickets to site-based entertainment or movies or whatever.

Disney usually doesn't do pitches for original ideas.

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.

Disney has been such a big part of my early career. I've done two pilots for Disney, and I've been working with them since I was 16, and I just turned 21.

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

I've had the luxury of working on a lot of our great brands here at Warner Brothers, including a lot of the DC ones. I've also worked on a lot of great brands that were not DC.

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.

The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.