Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see 'The Fault in Our Stars.'

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.

I had a dream about you last night. We were plug sockets in the bedroom. We saw only a short part of their day, but we knew everything of it.

You were a rhyme who mattered, a being who slipped all too often.

Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter.

Stupid questions will never exist and won't ever exist.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

Wash your face before bed every night. Your skin will thank you - and your pillow too!

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.

I love shoes. I am a shoe fanatic. I have a special closet in my home just for my shoes.

Our average holding period is four years.