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" A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. "
Carol
Story
Christmas
" Audiences deserve better. "
Deserve
Audiences
Better
" Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture. "
First
Picture
Beauty
" Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo. "
Same
Affection
Cry
" 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. "
Looking
Go
Way
" Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process. "
Process
Money
Hollywood
" If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility. "
Honest
People
Destroy
" I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. "
Great
Team
Memories
" I'm a lifelong Disney nut. "
Lifelong
Nut
Disney
" 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. "
Teach
Class
Big
" I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it. "
Think
Afraid
Hollywood
" 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. "
Christmas
People
Movies
" Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. "
Never
Los Angeles
Inside
" 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. "
Things
Alternatives
Exist
" NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. "
Disguise
Anchor
Brian
" Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. "
Express
Film
Polar
" Quality survives. "
Survives
Quality
" 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. "
Watching
Years
Funny
" Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. "
Made
Life
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. "
Year
Film
Kind
" Timing in life is everything. "
Everything
Timing
Life
" 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. "
Kind
Film
Made
" 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. "
Face
Real
Boss
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