When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

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.

Try to control your anger before it burns your life.

Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.

Your impact on others is the only proof of your existence

I have lost my smile, but don't worry.The dandelion has it.

A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

The Democrat Party can't provide, can't take care of, cannot provide prosperity for people.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.