Here's a great interview with Walt Disney conducted by NBC in 1966. It has some lovely anecdotes, quotes and thoughts.
- "As long as there is imagination left in the world, Disneyland will never be complete."
- From the very start it was a problem of getting the money to open Disneyland. About 17 million dollars it took. We had everything mortgaged, including my family. We were able to get it open and for ten or eleven years now we've been pouring more money back in. In other words, like the old farmer, you've got to pour it back into the ground if you want to get it out.
- "You're only as good as your last picture."
- "If any of you starts to rest on your laurels, forget it," he told his staff. That was his guarantee for the future.
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