Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.
The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!
People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we'd just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it.
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.
I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.