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"Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella."
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"I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago."
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"All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big."
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"Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie."
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"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier."
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"But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not."
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"Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there."
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"My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire."
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"I look like Walt Disney just threw up."
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"Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness."
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"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"
Morals
"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."
Age
"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
Community
"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."
Challenge
"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
People
"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them."
People
"You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people."
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"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
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