Critic Quotes

Audiences deserve better.
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
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.
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
I'm a lifelong Disney nut.
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.
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.
Quality survives.
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
Timing in life is everything.
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