John Hench interview
John Hench: Our strong point is that we’re better communicators. Through images and through color and through sound and the rest of it, we were taught this in motion pictures—how do you evoke an idea in somebody else’s head so that they understand? If you were dropped in the middle of an Australian bush, or maybe even on Mars, for all I know, and there were people there, this is the way that you would communicate—and you could do it effectively—by gestures, through theatrical means. You’d be in trouble with pictures, but not too much. If you were a good draftsman, you’d be all right. But you’d do it by theatrical means.
And, of course, this is what we’ve done. We’ve taken images, but used them in a theatrical way.
Imagineering is a combination of the word engineering, to contrive, and imagination. I suppose it means evolving new things, new concepts, but it’s really a new way to communicate. […]
Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - The Diaries and Letters of Ferdinand Horvath (Ferdinand Horvath)
- 2 - A Short Autobiography by Ken Peterson (Ken Peterson)
- 3 - The Letters of Bob Givens to Hardie Gramatky (Bob Givens)
- 4 - The Letters of Sylvia Holland (Sylvia Holland)
- 5 - Tyrus Wong interview (Michael Barrier)
- 6 - John Hench interview
- 7 - John Hench interview (Charles Solomon)
- 8 - Marc Davis interview (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 9 - Alice Davis interview (EMC West)
- 10 - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn interview (David Tietyen)
- 11 - Floyd Norman interview (Jim Korkis)
- 12 - Stacey Hartley, daughter of Paul R. Hartley (Didier Ghez)
- 13 - Bill Cottrell interview (Jay Horan)
- 14 - Lillian Disney, Diane Disney Miller, Jenny Miller interview - Recorded in October 1982 at EPCOT in Florida (Bob Allen, Jim Korkis (transcript))
- 15 - Glen Keane iInterview (Charles Solomon)
- 16 - Darrell Van Citters interview (Didier Ghez)
Persons
Christopher Finch (author)Linda Rosenkrantz (author)
John Hench (interviewee)