#ak

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

— Leonard Maltin

#cry #every #exact #i #just

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

— Leonard Maltin

#believe #both #end-all #executives #hollywood

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. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#charlie #charlie chaplin #comedies #ever #funny

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. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#disney #film #himself #kind #last

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#bet #better #between #calculated #calculated risk

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught. ↗

— Method Man

#caught #checks #got #i #make

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. ↗

— George Szell

#choreography #conductors #give #must #orchestra

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. ↗

— David Mamet

#conscious #constant #culture #evolves #exists

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family

People only speak to get something. ↗

— David Mamet

#only #people #something #speak