I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

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 plum-colored night sky was shifting to pink to make room for the day, which looked as though it might turn out “glorious and whimsical, ” as the Key West Citizen had promised.

I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

Change your mind about something significant every day.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.