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

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.

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.

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.

In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.