I'm a lifelong Disney nut.

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

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)

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.

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.

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

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