Steven Spielberg Quotes

If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.

Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.

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.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.

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

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

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

We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

I'm still a big believer in movie theaters, and going to see movies in public.

There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.

I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.

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

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

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

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

I think people will always want to go see a movie, whether it's a comedy and you want to see it and laugh with people, or whatever.

The word 'cinema' itself means that you have to go to the cinemas and watch it.

I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.