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Vote:   | Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo. |
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Vote: | I actually found a book I had when I was a kid, a collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales my parents bought me decades ago. |
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Vote: | I am writing a special now for Turner Classic movies on shorts. |
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Vote: | I had a pretty typical 1950s baby boomer suburban upbringing in New Jersey, a suburb of Manhattan. A nice place to grow up. But my timing was good because 1950s television was like a living history of motion pictures on a daily basis including animation, and best of all there was Walt Disney every week hosting the Disneyland TV show. |
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Vote: | I have this memory-it's actually the first memory I have of being in a movie theater-of my mother taking me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in one of its reissues in the 50s. |
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Vote: | I think Hercules got a bum rap. Hercules is a really entertaining movie. I ended up seeing it three times in the theater and I enjoyed it every time. I think it's a funny, clever, well-made movie and I think it didn't get the accolades it deserved. |
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Vote: | I think my all-time, all-around favorite would be Mary Poppins.I think it's a great movie. It wears really well. You can watch it over and over again. There's so much in it, there's so much to it. And it has so many different qualities from the casting to the art direction to the songs. |
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Vote: | I think Political Correctness has gone a bit overboard and I certainly have no wish to hurt or offend anybody, but I think everything is a matter of degree. |
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Vote: | I think there's an underlying continuity at Disney, but the new filmmakers are going off in their own direction as they should. |
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Vote: | I was brainwashed at a very early age. |
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Vote: | I was publishing a fanzine. I started doing one when I was 13 years old, and then two years later it sort of got merged into another magazine that had bigger circulation that called Film Fan Monthly. And I was the editor and publisher and chief writer and stamp licker and envelope stuffer, and I did that for 9 years from when I was 15. |
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Vote: | I'm sitting here looking at a bottle of Hop Along Cassidy Hair Trainer. It's not that uncommon, a lot of Hoppie fans have those. |
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Vote: | I've been pretty lucky. You can call me a Pollyanna, but I have been pretty lucky. |
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Vote: | IMDB is a great reference, but it has its limitations. It is handy. |
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Vote: | It all starts with Mickey, he's the cornerstone. |
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Vote: | It occurred to me that some of my favorite Disney films weren't available on video, and DVD offered even great possibility for mining the vault, and I made that proposal. |
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Vote: | Katherine Hepburn. First one that comes to mind when anyone asks about great interviews. I've now interviewed her four times, which is pretty amazing. The first was an especially memorable day. I spoke to her in her home and she was just great, she's an interviewer's dream because she's opinionated and forthright and never dull. |
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Vote: | Look what he tried to do with Fantasia. And that was over 60 years ago. I think he'd be surprised that there haven't been further strides somehow. I don't just mean in his studio, I think in general. |
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Vote: | Looking on the wall ahead of me, there's Fatty Arbuckle, who starred in the first movie version of Brewster's Millions in about 1920 or 1921. |
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Vote: | Meeting with those veteran cameraman was a wonderful learning process for me, so that was very exciting. |
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Vote: | People make many suggestions about other kinds of companion volumes, but to tell the truth, life is too short and I cannot do it. I do not want to sound like I am whining or complaining, because of the book has been very good to me and I am addicted to it by now, but it is a lot of work. |
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Vote: | Quality survives. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Some classic, some little known films... have gotten very little exposure in recent years. |
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Vote: | The day Walt Disney died I was very upset. |
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Vote: | The goal of the book has always been to be a guide to films that you can watch at home. Originally it was on a conventional commercial TV and cable television and then we had home video. |
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Vote: | The highest compliment I ever had was a couple of working cinematographers telling me that was one of the first books they read on the subject and it got them interested in the field. Who could be paid a higher compliment than that? |
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Vote: | The international movie data base is very good, I am on it. They license my book. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | The more offbeat the better. |
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Vote: | The thing about my Disney stuff is it doesn't have to be old. It just has to appeal to me. |
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Vote: | The very first movie image I ever remember ever seeing is Snow White being taken off into the sunset by Prince Charming. |
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Vote: | There are no variety shows on television any more. |
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Vote: | There is a Laserdisc set of Mickey in Black and white. Even though Laserdisc never reached as big an audience as DVD is, for the first one out I wanted to do one that hasn't been done before. |
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Vote: | Think about how tough it is for anyone to act in another language and still perform up to your capability. |
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Vote: | Timing in life is everything. |
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Vote: | To be really honest, mostly these folks are on their best behavior when they're doing an interview. We're not really seeing them under pressure or with their hair down. |
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Vote: | Walt was a Futurist. Walt was a visionary. There was no one more forward thinking person than Walt. |
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Vote: | Walt was such a visionary. You could trip yourself up trying to second guess what he would have done. He was always ahead of everybody. |
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Vote: | We have a newer interview I shot with Fess Parker, who's just charming. He really, I think, pried his memory a bit more than he had in quite a while. Then a really good interview with Paul Anderson about Davy Crockett and the phenomenon and Davy Crockett collectibles. |
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Vote: | When I came on the scene and got my foot in the door with publishers and being able to write a I got to write books on subjects that no one else had written about, that was a really a privilege. |
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Vote: | When I set out to write the book I sold the idea to a publisher and I realized I had to watch every Disney film fresh. I couldn't rely on my memory. I had to watch it fresh with an eye towards writing an essay on each one. And I also decided that I had to watch them in chronological order. |
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Vote: | 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. |