Saving Mr. Banks

"George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."

"I've fought this battle from her side. Pat Powers, he wanted the mouse and I didn't have a bean back then. He was this big terrifying New York producer and I was just a kid from Missouri with a sketch of Mickey, but it would've killed me to give him up. Honest to God, killed me. That mouse, he's family."

"[throws a plush Mickey Mouse off her bed] You can stay over there until you learn the art of subtlety."

"[sees a Winnie the Pooh doll in her room] Poor A. A. Milne."

"No, those aren't songs, they're recitations. She's not a giddy woman. She doesn't jig about. I mean, singing is frivolous. It is whole unnecessary in a governess, an educatress. No, it would s-simply ruin it. I won't have her turned into one of your silly cartoons."

"My point is that, unlike yourself, Mary Poppins is the very enemy of whimsy and sentiment. She's truthful. She doesn't sugarcoat the darkness in the world that these children will eventually, inevitably come to know. She prepares them for it. She deals in honesty. One must clean one's room; it will magically do it by itself! This entire script is flim-flam! Where is its heart? Where is its reality? Where... is the gravitas? [throws the script out the window] No weight, Mr. Disney."

"[sadly looks around at her home] I wanted to keep my house."

"Where her book ended, their story began."

"Behind the beloved book is a story beyond words."

"To bring Mary Poppins to life, he needs to work his magic."

"To Walt Disney, "Mary Poppins" was more than a book. To her, it was more than a movie."

"Emma Thompson - Pamela "P. L." Travers"

"Tom Hanks - Walt Disney"

"Colin Farrell - Travers Robert Goff"

"Ruth Wilson - Margaret Goff"

"Paul Giamatti - Ralph"

"Bradley Whitford - Don DaGradi"

"B. J. Novak - Robert B. Sherman"

"Jason Schwartzman - Richard M. Sherman"

"Kathy Baker - Tommie"

"Melanie Paxson - Dolly"

"Rachel Griffiths - Ellie"

"Ronan Vibert - Diarmuid Russell"

"Kristopher Kyer - Dick Van Dyke"

"Victoria Summer - Julie Andrews"