“After dedicating my life to Disney… they fired me behind my back.

I walked away angry, afraid — but with one thought in mind:

to prove that sometimes, dreams are born from nightmares.” 🎬🔥

I had given everything to Disney.

I rescued films everyone had given up on — The Little Mermaid, The Lion King.

I literally slept at the studio. I had no life outside of it.

But when I finally asked for what I had been promised — a fair position, a seat at the table —

they let me go without hesitation.

As if I had meant nothing.

That night, I cried in my car.

Humiliated.

Burning inside. 🚗💔

I almost quit Hollywood. I was exhausted. Drained.

But then came Steven Spielberg and David Geffen with a crazy idea:

Let’s build our own studio.

One that breaks the rules.

One that dares to stand up to the giants.

And that’s how DreamWorks was born.

Not with magic — but with risk, struggle, and pain.

We ran out of money.

We released flops like The Road to El Dorado.

We had to let people go.

Every failure hurt… but made us stronger. 💸🎥

Then came Shrek.

An anti-fairy tale. Sarcastic. Weird. Real.

A green ogre and a talking donkey?

Nobody believed in it.

But Shrek changed everything.

We won an Oscar. We made history.

And most importantly —

we proved you don’t need a crown to tell legendary stories. 🏆👑

“Not all dreams are born in castles.

Some rise from rubble — when you decide to never stay silent again.”

— Jeffrey Katzenberg