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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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