Bob Greene Quotes

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

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.

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.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

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

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

I don't want to be a grumpy old man or too pessimistic, because if I have a chance, I would prefer to watch a film in the cinema with an audience on a big screen instead of watching it on a cell phone. It's a very different experience, but somehow I think this form will have its own future and life.

If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed.

I always want to go to the movies and watch something and be moved by something or feel things.

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.

If I hear that a film of mine is going to be shown on a big screen somewhere and I haven't seen it in a while, I make a point to get to see it. I just want to see it up on the big screen.

I go to movies. I blend in.

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won't work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.

I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.

I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

I’m trying to please myself; certainly that’s a big criterion... though in a sense, I don’t take images just for myself. I take images that I think other people will want to see. I don’t take pictures to put in a box and hide them. I want as many people to see them as possible.

The cinema is death at work.