When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.
The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.
I started watching movies in theatres very late as my family was against it.
The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.
People say, 'If you open a movie online at the same time as in movie theatres, no one is going to go to the movies.' That's just not true. People love to go out and have a shared experience; they always will.
I have been trying to get theatre releases for short films ever since I have been making them. I didn't get any response from theatres initially.
I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres.
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.
I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.
The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.
If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.
When people say that moviegoing is dead, I go, 'OK, so the makers of 'Get Out' should've sold that movie to a platform? Then they don't have this insane, crazy success theatrically all over the world.'
Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.
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.
There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.
One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.
I feel digital is here to stay. It is going to wipe out small and medium budget films, mark my words.
