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Leonard Maltin

"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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

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Donna Grant

"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."

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Donna Grant

"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."

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Donna Grant

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

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Leonard Maltin
"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."

Education

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Leonard Maltin
"Quality survives."

Quality

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Leonard Maltin
"I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it."

People

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Leonard Maltin
"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."

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Leonard Maltin
"Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film."

Technology

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Leonard Maltin
"A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up."

Christian

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Leonard Maltin
"Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today."

Life

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Leonard Maltin
"Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process."

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Leonard Maltin
"Timing in life is everything."

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Leonard Maltin
"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."

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