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

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

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.

I'm a lifelong Disney nut.

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.

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