Rithy Panh Quotes

Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.

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

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

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

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

Giving people the opportunity to sit in a dark theater together and have emotions in public, whether they're laughing or crying - that's what makes me happy.

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

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

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.

Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

You can't stop people watching on mobiles, but I hope the old fashioned idea of sitting in a dark room with a big screen with a group of strangers lives on forever.

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

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

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.