Leonard Maltin Quotes

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• You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

  Leonard Maltin

  Clever, Want, Helping

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• Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.

  Leonard Maltin

  Watches, Film, Worthwhile

  Leonard Maltin (1994). “Leonard Maltin's movie and video guide”, N A L Trade

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• 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

  United States, Palaces, Los Angeles

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

  Leonard Maltin

  Believe, Hollywood, Process

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• Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

  Leonard Maltin

  Special, Affection, Cry

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• 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

  Sentimental, Santa, Kind

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• Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

  Leonard Maltin

  Pieces, Murder, Hitchcock

  Leonard Maltin (2013). “Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide”, p.1930, Penguin

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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.

  Leonard Maltin

  Teamwork, Memories, Interviews

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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.

  Leonard Maltin

  Kids, Independent, Class

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• With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

  Leonard Maltin

  Eye, Achievement, Special

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• Timing in life is everything.

  Leonard Maltin

  Timing, Life Is

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• Audiences deserve better.

  Leonard Maltin

  Deserve Better, Audience, Deserve

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

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, People, Sentimental

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• It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)

  Leonard Maltin

  Life, Alive, Film

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• 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

  Dvds, Games, Alternatives

  "In the Money" with Andy Serwer, Allen Wastler, Carrie Lee, edition.cnn.com. October 29, 2005.

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• Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

  Leonard Maltin

  Stories, Firsts, Thrillers

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• 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

  Real, Boss, Done

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• If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.

  Leonard Maltin

  Snow, Zombie, Willing

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• Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

  Leonard Maltin

  Beautiful, Men, Two

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• I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such a long time. James Dean became a star in one calendar year, and then he left us. But he's still being talked about, he's still being revered, he's still being iconized forty years later. I don't think there's another example like it in the entire history of movies.

  Leonard Maltin

  Stars, Thinking, Years

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• I'm a lifelong Disney nut.

  Leonard Maltin

  Nuts, Lifelong

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• If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, People, Honest

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• 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.

  Leonard Maltin

  Play, Years, Today

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• Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

  Leonard Maltin

  Today, Television, Classic

  "In The Money" with Jack Cafferty, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• 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

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

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