The Imagineering Story Quotes

“There’s really no secret about our approach,” Walt said. “We keep moving forward, opening up new doors, doing new things, because we’re curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We’re always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering.”
― Leslie Iwerks, The Imagineering Story

“You've probably heard this a dozen times, but I think it always goes back to the story," Imagineer David Wilson said. "When you walk into our parks, you enter somewhere else.... That's the magic of being in a Disney park. It's the magic of reading a good book.”
― Leslie Iwerks, The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering

“When I took this job, I had this kind of simplistic view of leadership, which is: you’ve done a lot of this work for many years, so you’re in a position to be able to lead a lot of people who do this work,” Weis said. “And it turns out leadership is more like doing something you never thought you’d have to do, for situations you’d never thought you’d be faced with. And now it’s a matter of trying to apply whatever knowledge and experience you have to a problem that’s completely unknown.”
― Leslie Iwerks, The Imagineering Story

“Looking back, Rohde saw his chief asset in developing the park not as his design or artistic skills but the liberal arts education he’d gotten at Occidental College. He was a voracious reader and a habitual synthesizer of seemingly unrelated concepts”
― Leslie Iwerks, The Imagineering Story