I'm a lifelong Disney nut.
From Leonard Maltin
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.
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.
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Quality survives.
Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.
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.
Timing in life is everything.
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
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