Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship.
ABIGAIL DISNEYOnce we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship.
ABIGAIL DISNEYThese are two people who would never have overlapped in any other way or context.
ABIGAIL DISNEYMy family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland
ABIGAIL DISNEYI get very close to people when I’m shooting them.
ABIGAIL DISNEYWhen I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on.
ABIGAIL DISNEYI worry that people will think that I have done what I’ve done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I’m just as scared and lonely as anyone else!
ABIGAIL DISNEYThat’s actually a massive step away from his original position, and he’s taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me.
ABIGAIL DISNEYI’ve taken it from feminist friends, and I’ve taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that’s exactly where we want to be.
ABIGAIL DISNEYMy advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you’ve gotten some approval for them.
ABIGAIL DISNEYYou probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.
ABIGAIL DISNEYThere’s a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information.
ABIGAIL DISNEYConservative values aren’t really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is
ABIGAIL DISNEYPeople just don’t get as engaged in that kind of documentary – they don’t fall in love, they don’t cry, they don’t forget who they are, they don’t ride with you.
ABIGAIL DISNEYYou probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.
ABIGAIL DISNEYThen I would go shoot a scene with Rob and tell him all about Lucy. Eventually they wanted to know each other.
ABIGAIL DISNEYThere are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He’s spent time in jail. He has really lived it.
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