Cinema Technology Quotes

I love IMAX when it works right.

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism.

Cinema will not go anywhere. We want to watch movies in theaters. Cinema and digital will coexist.

I'm a big fan of IMAX/3-D films; I love that whole experience.

I've never actually seen a 3-D movie. I've seen some dailies in 3-D and it kind of gives me a headache. But it looks really cool.

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

I'm actually very critical of digital cinema.

Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

I can say is usually people are slightly confused. They think that silent movies are old. But, the fact is, they are old because they have been made in the '20s. That's the thing that makes them old. Not the format. The format is just a format. It's not an old format.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

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

Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.