Leonard Maltin quotes and sayings
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
Leonard Maltin quotes
- 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.
- While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
- A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
- 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.
- Quality survives.
- If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.
- Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
- Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
- 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.