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John Hench Quotes
Because, you know, its never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, Ive been here since 57 years, and I dont have to explain why Ive stayed so long. I always enjoyed it. - John Hench Quotes
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. - John Hench Quotes
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 just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way. - John Hench Quotes
Color is a very critical thing. Ive found that architects dont 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. I had great satisfaction in doing that. - John Hench Quotes
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. - John Hench Quotes
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 have this Celebration village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first. - John Hench Quotes
I always admired Walts 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. - John Hench Quotes
I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences. - John Hench Quotes
I dont 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. - John Hench Quotes
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were Id like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. - John Hench Quotes
I helped develop Disneys) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on 20000 Leagues under the Sea. - John Hench Quotes
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 what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story. - John Hench Quotes
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. - John Hench Quotes
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 didnt do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera. - John Hench Quotes
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesnt 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. - John Hench Quotes
It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea. - John Hench Quotes
Its an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything. Outside colors, balcony colors, etc.. And all of this has to work together, in harmony. - John Hench Quotes
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 hes been accepted everywhere he goes. - John Hench Quotes
Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really. - John Hench Quotes
Now people dont know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least theyve learn something! - John Hench Quotes
Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I dont 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. - John Hench Quotes
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 youre driving up There it is! Were arriving! - John Hench Quotes
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. - John Hench Quotes
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. - John Hench Quotes
Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message. - John Hench Quotes
There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, theyve been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us. - John Hench Quotes
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. - John Hench Quotes
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. - John Hench Quotes
Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar. - John Hench Quotes
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. - John Hench Quotes
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