Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

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.

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.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

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

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

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

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

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I make sure that I watch all the new films in a theatre.

I think a lot of people prefer watching films on TV, in the comfort of their homes.

Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.

I am a complete movie buff who still prefers to go for the late night show and seldom watch movies at home.

One should be able to take the whole family along to watch a film.

I don't usually watch my films in theatres when they release.

A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big TV becomes.

There will always be a place for social movie-going. Nothing can compete with that.