Marc Davis Quotes
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Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.
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At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability…
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Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I…
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Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But…
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Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
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His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for…
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I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised…
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
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My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
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Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That…
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The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended…
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Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences.…
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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
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I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!
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It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer…
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There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn…
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Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human…
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