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.

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.

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.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

He was out to get back everything he'd lost

This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

Be a master of yourself.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

Only the insecure strive for security.