The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.
My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.
Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.
My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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.
When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.