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

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

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

Audiences deserve better.

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.

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.

I'm a lifelong Disney nut.