Leonard Maltin quotes and sayings
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.
Leonard Maltin quotes
- When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
- 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.
- I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
- Timing in life is everything.
- Audiences deserve better.
- 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.
- I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
- 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.