If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

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.

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.

The trouble with fiction, " said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Have good sense, smell the scents, and you will have more cents

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.

No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.