"I was given the cat and mouse stuff, a lot of that. I got the juicy parts. The fairy godmother, and the cat and the mice -- that's the meat of the picture. Meeting the prince at the ball -- thank God I didn't get that one! Without comedy, the film would have been as dead as Sleeping Beauty. You can't tell a well-worn old folk tale without putting a lot of gingerbread in there. In Disney films, little stuff is what makes them. The thing is, Cinderella was such a simple tale that there weren't any great deviations in it to begin with. Actually, it was a matter of how you worked out the sequences to interlock the cat and mouse situations with the rest of the story. The outline wasn't that much of a thing. It was a matter of engineering the whole thing, and threading the comedy through it. I don't think that plot-wise there was any problem from the beginning. I think Walt dictated some of that; I think he was just a little disappointed that they corned it up the way they did."
Bill Peet in an interview with Mike Barrier, 1978
BILL PAINTED THIS PORTRAIT OF JACQUE ON THE COVER OF BILL JR'S THREE RING SCHOOL NOTEBOOK
Bill Peet was one of eight storymen that worked on "Cinderella". Twenty-five animators were credited on the film.
