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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."
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"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them."
"It looks like to watch a film without little horror is like to eat a pizza without the extra stuff on it. Like the sauces!"
"There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance."
"Castle series are great, even James Patterson is out there!"
"Of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse."
"If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree."
"It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry."
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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."
"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."
"I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it."
"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."
"Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process."
"Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo."
"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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