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.

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

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You AreBelieve In Yourself.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

There was something about the man that was throwing her right off, and it had everything to do with the boner in his pants.

You get to decide what to worship.

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.