Quality survives.

Woody Allen has said, “If I wanted to have a weekend of pure pleasure, it would be to have a half-dozen Bob Hope films and watch them, films like Monsieur Beaucaire and My Favorite Brunette. It’s not for nothing that he’s such a greatly accepted comedian. He is a great, great talent.” Despite this praise from a celebrated contemporary funnyman, there is a tendency to take Bob Hope’s films for granted.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Joe Berlinger’s documentary ‘Whitey’ is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can’t take your eyes off the screen.