Alan Menken Quotes

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.

I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.'

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.

I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

There's so many versions of 'Red Riding Hood.' It goes back 700 years.

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

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

While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

This cassette (video cassette of Walt Disney's Dumbo) was a documentary of my campaign.

I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.

More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

There was a guy that I got to know pretty well - Joe Grant. He was one of the creators of Dumbo and worked side-by-side with Disney. Being a total Disney nerd, I was obsessed with asking him questions. He was 92 when I got to know him.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.