John Hench Quotes

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• Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about…
• But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He…
• The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40…
• There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at…
• I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images…
• Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.
• Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated,…
• For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we…
• I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.
• I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept…
• The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be…
• We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being,…
• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the…
• I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to…
• Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is…
• Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to…
• In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen…
• The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.
• Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.
• Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it…

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