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.
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. - Leonard Maltin
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
- Leonard Maltin
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. - Leonard Maltin
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture. - Leonard Maltin
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
You want to make an impression. Being clever helps. - Leonard Maltin
You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.
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. - 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.
Audiences deserve better. - Leonard Maltin
Audiences deserve better.
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 inde… - 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 inde…
Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo. - Leonard Maltin
Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process. - Leonard Maltin
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
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