Audiences deserve better.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

It seems you want me at your mercy, Princess. Question is, why?No, she whispered, question is do I?

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.