Jeffrey Katzenberg Quotes

“What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“I haven't got a lot of patience.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“Inspiration comes from all different places.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“If you go running, you put on sneakers. When you go bowling, you take your personal bowling balls with you. In much the same fashion, it won't be long before you have your special sunglasses to take to the movie theater.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past,”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“Movies are not a growth business,”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg