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Top 25 Leonard Maltin Quotes (2025 Update)

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Timing in life is everything.”

1. “Timing in life is everything.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.”

2. “You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “If you’re willing to go along for this farcical ride, you’ll find ‘Dead Snow 2’ to be one terrific zombie movie.”

4. “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

Leonard Maltin Quote: “If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.”

5. “If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.”

7. “Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Woody Allen has said, “If I wanted to have a weekend of pure pleasure, it would be to have a half-dozen Bob Hope films and watch them, films like Monsieur Beaucaire and My Favorite Brunette. It’s not for nothing that he’s such a greatly accepted comedian. He is a great, great talent.” Despite this praise from a celebrated contemporary funnyman, there is a tendency to take Bob Hope’s films for granted.”

8. “Woody Allen has said, “If I wanted to have a weekend of pure pleasure, it would be to have a half-dozen Bob Hope films and watch them, films like Monsieur Beaucaire and My Favorite Brunette. It’s not for nothing that he’s such a greatly accepted comedian. He is a great, great talent.” Despite this praise from a celebrated contemporary funnyman, there is a tendency to take Bob Hope’s films for granted.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Television is what made It’s a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.”

9. “Television is what made It’s a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.’”

10. “With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.’”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see ‘The Fault in Our Stars.’”

11. “Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see ‘The Fault in Our Stars.’”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Leonard Maltin Quote: “I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.”

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

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.”

14. “When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “I’m a lifelong Disney nut.”

15. “I’m a lifelong Disney nut.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Joe Berlinger’s documentary ‘Whitey’ is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can’t take your eyes off the screen.”

16. “Joe Berlinger’s documentary ‘Whitey’ is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can’t take your eyes off the screen.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make ‘The Lunchbox’ a pleasure to watch.”

17. “The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make ‘The Lunchbox’ a pleasure to watch.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.”

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

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Audiences deserve better.”

19. “Audiences deserve better.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Leonard Maltin Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Leonard Maltin Quote: “I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.”

22. “I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.”

— Leonard Maltin

23. “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

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.”

24. “Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.”

25. “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

Leonard Maltin Quote: “A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can’t louse it up.”

26. “A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can’t louse it up.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.”

27. “NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.”

— Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Leonard Maltin Quote: “Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.”

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

— Leonard Maltin

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