A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

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.

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.

Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.

We travel with our thoughts to great lands.

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

When all you see is darkness, turn to hope, and your heart will see the light.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.

The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.