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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.

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.

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.

Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy.

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.

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.