Peter Rainer Quotes (3 Quotes)

Unless it's a long-standing conflict like World War II or Vietnam, whose effects we saw on the movies for years, most recessions are too small to really impact the content of movies.

There's always something arbitrary when you limit a list to a fixed number. There easily could be 100 for another book.

It's a myth that the movie business was booming during the Depression. For one thing, there wasn't as much repeat business back then. A movie came out, played theaters for a while and then that was it.