#in

It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#high #high school #meeting #midwestern #mistaken

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. I had great satisfaction in doing that. ↗

— John Hench

#because #color #colors #critical #doing

Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it. ↗

— John Hench

#because #been #enjoy #enjoyed #explain

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

#been #before #big #big cities #chaos

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

#believed #common #dali #deal #great

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#mishaps #more #reviewing #simpler #task

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

#beginning #celebration #disney #done #early

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. ↗

— John Hench

#always #back #direction #down #driving

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. ↗

— John Hench

#always #because #been #center #day

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

#allow #before #difficulty #during #every