Atticus Ross Quotes

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

I only treat myself as an audience with each film, I enjoy different stories.

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

I know when I watch a film at this point, if I completely lose myself in the characters and the story and the world of the film I know that it's at least in my opinion, that was great. Otherwise I'm thinking: "Oh I know they were just doing A, B and C, right before they walked into the scene, then the camera was there, then they probably took the shot from this reverse close-up and moved it into this." When all of that drops away then I'm like: "Okay this was phenomenal, this was fantastic." I mean, any film or TV performance in general is probably good.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

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

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.