Douglas Trumbull Quotes

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

I love IMAX.

There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.

There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

Film is so immersive.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.

I'm a big fan of IMAX/3-D films; I love that whole experience.

I've always seen my movies in particular as being an immersive experience. I mean, with the technology at my disposal, I've always tried to make them as immersive an experience as possible.

The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.