[…][This interview is] centered on Pinocchio.
[On Walt Disney and his Studio.]
Eric Larson: I don’t know how different the atmosphere around here was forty years ago. I do know that everybody was of one thought, and that was to do something good. We all had egos, but Walt had a way of taking those egos and making them work together as a team without destroying them.
Now that kind of ability doesn’t come very often. And Walt’s enthusiasm for things was absolutely out of this world. You’d take the most ordinary thing, and if he was enthused about it, you became enthused about it, and I think that’s where, if there’s a difference [between then and now], that’s it. […]
