Quotes by Leonard Maltin

About Leonard Maltin:

Leonard Michael Maltin is an American film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives. He is known as a "go-to" critic for the major studios, for writing the shortest review in the U.S. and creating the Walt Disney Treasures series.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

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I'm a lifelong Disney nut.

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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.

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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.

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When it comes to the selections, I heard several observers claim that the Academy was embracing “nostalgia” by honoring and . Give me a break! represents cutting-edge storytelling by a world-class director—in 3-D, no less. dares to revisit a fo...

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Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameLeonard Maltin
  • DescriptionAmerican film critic
  • BornDecember 18, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Art Historian; Author; Film Critic