Jiang Wen Quotes

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

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

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

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.

If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.

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.

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.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

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.

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

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.

When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out of the theater was to listen to its film score.

I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.

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

I don't cook. I love to eat. I love to go to the restaurants.

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 have to admit to the occasional need for 'Come Dine with Me.' I am the most atrocious cook, and that's probably why I find it so entertaining. It looks exotic to me.

When TV came, people said who will go to theatres to watch movies? When the Internet came, they said the same. And now it's the digital media... The doomsday predictions are always there but I don't think people will stop going to cinema halls because that is one experience you can't get at home.

I like to go to London to eat something or have a drink with my friends. However, I am a very home-loving person, and I spend a lot of time at home.

The first movie I saw was 'Prince of Egypt' - that was the first movie I saw in theaters.

I think theatre must be an event, an experience, not compete with cinema. When people are able to download stories on Netflix, you need to give them a good reason to jump into the car and drive two hours. It has to be something you can only see in the theatre, and it has to be worth it.

Certainly it's much more important for me to go to a good movie and spend a nice night with my wife than it is to listen to a specific piece of music.

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.

I saw 'The Theory of Everything,' which I loved, but I'm afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.

I got a lot of restaurants I like to eat at, smash out some food.