Jon Lovitz Quotes

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

I need to create a whole cinematic experience. I think that's what it takes to get the audience to the theater and justify seeing [a movie] on a big screen. You have to give them a cinematic experience.

The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

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

If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

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.

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

Film is a strange thing.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.