Leonard Maltin quotes

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. (Leonard Maltin)
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility. View quote
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Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. View quote
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. View quote
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. View quote
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Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process. View quote
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Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. View quote
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Timing in life is everything. View quote
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Audiences deserve better. (Leonard Maltin)
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Quality survives. View quote
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I'm a lifelong Disney nut. View quote
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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. View quote
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You want to make an impression. Being clever helps. View quote
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Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. (Leonard Maltin)
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin

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Occupation: American Critic
Born: December 18, 1950
Quotes count: 24