Today We Are Shapers Of The World

Whether You Say You Can't Or You Can, You're Right.

Tomorrow Can Be A Wonderful Age.

We Grew To Our Present Size Almost Against Ourselves. It Was Not A Deliberately Planned Commercial Venture In The Sense That I Sat Down And Said That We Were Going To Make Ourselves Into A Huge Financial Octopus. We Evolved By Necessity. We Did Not Sit Down And Say To Ourselves, 'how Can We Make A Big Pile Of Dough?' It Just Happened.

I Always Like To Look On The Optimistic Side Of Life, But I Am Realistic Enough To Know That Life Is A Complex Matter. With The Laugh Comes The Tears And In Developing Motion Pictures Or Television Shows, You Must Combine All The Facts Of Life - Drama, Pathos And Humor.

As The Original 'mary Poppins' Budget Of Five Million Dollars Continued To Grow, I Never Saw A Sad Face Around The Entire Studio. And This Made Me Nervous. I Knew The Picture Would Have To Gross 10 Million Dollars For Us To Break Even. But Still There Was No Negative Head-shaking. No Prophets Of Doom. Even Roy Was Happy. He Didn't Even Ask Me To Show The Unfinished Picture To A Banker. The Horrible Thought Struck Me - Suppose The Staff Had Finally Conceded That I Knew What I Was Doing.