We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen. One should go to the cinema with the innocence of a fetus

We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us,

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

It is a truism that Hollywood trailers advertise not the movie that has been made, but the movie that the studio wishes had been made.

to the experience of being fully immersed in a film and then suddenly realizing that you are sitting in a theater watching a mere play of light on a wall.

One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the major difference between a zoo and the wild is the absence of parasites and enemies and the abundance of food in the first, and their respective abundance and scarcity in the second. Think about it yourself. Would you rather be put up at the Ritz with free room service and unlimited access to a doctor or be homeless without a soul to care for you?...

But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

The market is like a large movie theater with a small door.

Once you take something to the big screen, you’re introducing it to the world.

If showing movies in theaters wasn't Hollywood's original business model, it would seem a pretty niche idea. Pay to watch a movie at a set time in a big room with a bunch of other people? Someone proposing this would have a hard time getting studios to take the idea seriously.