Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.

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.

He growled low in his throat. “I don’t think I can do this the nice way, Jessica.

Health is never going to go out of fashion.

The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.