John Hench Quotes

• The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

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  Business, Design, Perception

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• 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 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

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  Children, Artist, Reality

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• 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 driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

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  Artist, Optimism, Fundamentals

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• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

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  Cities, Lasts, Parks

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• 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 the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

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  Emotional, Color, Architect

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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 Walt.

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  People, Cynical, Intuition

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• I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

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  Technology, Artist, Years

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• 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 is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.

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  Eye, Artist, Ideas

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• I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

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  Successful, Thinking, Artist

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• We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

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  Color, Cities, Feelings

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• Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.

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  Artist, Ideas, Pirate

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• I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

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  Artist, Color, Filters

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• Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

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  Artist, Names, Example

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• Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

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  Artist, Skills, Needs

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• We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.

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  Artist, Ideas, Get Better

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• This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

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  Artist, Bird, Tape

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• The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

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  Fighting, Artist, Color

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• 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, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

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  Artist, People, Feelings

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• 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 communicate with images.

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  Children, Wall, Talking

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• 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 continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

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  Morning, Play, Cartoon

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• I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

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  Two, Dry, Animation

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• 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 better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

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  Thinking, Magic Kingdom, Bird

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• We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

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  Cartoon, Chosen, Screens

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• Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!

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  Skeletons, Paris, People

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• I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

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  Sea, League, Special

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