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. Leonard Maltin Read Quote
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. Leonard Maltin Read Quote
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. Leonard Maltin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Leonard Maltin Read Quote