Joel Silver Quotes

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

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

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.

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.

There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.

I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

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

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

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.

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

I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.

Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.

I love IMAX.

I loved the movie theater, so I always saw a lot of movies.