Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

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.

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.

Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you’re in trouble, just remember you’re your own best friend.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Jesus told us to make disciples, not decisions.

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?

If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.