Jonathan Mostow Quotes

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

I feel the wall that divides films screened online and in the cinema is becoming less and less significant.

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

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.

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.

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 love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

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.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

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 fact is, it's hard to release movies.

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'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a fierce believer of the theatergoing experience. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.

Festive seasons are good for releases, but we have to leave some festival dates for other producers to release their films as well. We cannot take away all the holiday releases.

Every four or five films we've made a film that has gone on TV first. It's quite nice to tap into the TV audience, but it is nice to see it on the big screen too.

I'm not one of those people who only believe in the Netflix model. I go see films in the theater and love that experience and don't want it to ever die. But I like that Netflix exists, and you can discover so many different types of movies and TV and content you wouldn't have access to.

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

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.

When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.

A certain kind of film is a big theatrical film and a certain kind of film isn't. It doesn't bother me so much that you can pick your format.

If I am not able to go to theaters confidently and watch a film then I don't expect people to watch my film also.

Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.

Once the censorship board clears a film, there should not be any other obstacle for a film's theatrical run.