Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

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.

Thank you for being you, because without whom, I wouldn't be me.

Dare to dream.

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.