Disney

“Once everyone's wearing Nikes, people stop wearing Nikes, so you're kind of I worked at Disney when it was a long time ago, it was very, very hot on the consumer product side, and, you know, we couldn't sell enough, and then five years later, you can't give it…”

“She is one of the reasons the movie gets made, because when you don't have someone like that, that gives a company like Disney the confidence to make the film, because that, you know, at the end of the day, you want people in these movies that draw a crowd, an…”

“There is no way, I think, that this film will be getting made if he didn't make it his passion and he didn't walk it down the halls to get it made.”

“Because only one company in history had ever done it. That was Disney, and they had only succeeded at it for a few years, from 1939, when they released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

“They had committed to that in a 1991 contract that they went into with Disney. That was a little bit of a Hail Mary in a way, because otherwise Pixar was perilously close to going out of business. Disney came along and said that they would basically front the …”

“Him and then also the academics and other people who made DNS, for example, like the fact that it was permissionless, the fact that a hobbyist in a university could be on sort of level playing field with Disney on the web, right?”

“Disney's going to have its own thing, and NBC's going to have its own thing, and you're going to end up with like 45 apps on your device, and that also seems very unstable.”

“If you were going to build a modern Disney or Marvel now, you probably wouldn't want to start in comic books or in theaters. You'd want to start where the eyeballs are, which was, you know, really on social”

“The original Tron was from Disney, and it was the first movie that had integrated use of computer graphics, which was the big thing at the time. And as a consequence of that, Tron was disqualified from the Oscars because they cheated by using computer graphics…”