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Film Historian Inspirational Quotes (27)

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You can’t plead tolerance for gays by saying that they’re just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.
Vito Russo
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If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.
Vito Russo
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When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.
Vito Russo
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If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.
Leonard Maltin
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Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.
Leonard Maltin
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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.
Leonard Maltin
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Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see 'The Fault in Our Stars.'
Leonard Maltin
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I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
Leonard Maltin
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
Leonard Maltin
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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.
Leonard Maltin
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I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
Leonard Maltin
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Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today.
Vito Russo
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Audiences deserve better.
Leonard Maltin
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Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
Leonard Maltin
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Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
Leonard Maltin
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Timing in life is everything.
Leonard Maltin
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It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.
Vito Russo
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You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.
Leonard Maltin
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Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
Leonard Maltin
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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
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Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who aren’t necessarily plugged into comic strip history... I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers.
Leonard Maltin
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I'm a lifelong Disney nut.
Leonard Maltin
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With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
Leonard Maltin
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Leonard Maltin
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