Movie Theater Quotes

• My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

  Brion James

  Dad, Night, Theater

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• I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

  Steven Spielberg

  People, Crowds, Dozen

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• What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

  J. J. Abrams

  Light, Mystery, Excited

  "Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2011.

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• In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

  Ridley Scott

  Views, Way, Sound

  "The Only Way to See a Film" by Ridley Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Song, Two, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

  Will Smith

  Movie, People, Actors

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• I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.

  Denise Duhamel

  Mean, Phones, Netflix

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I just love, I love, I love movies.

  Laura Dern

  Movie Love, Theater

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• I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Machines, Woods, Chance

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that you never get to go and be a person who you never in your life would get to be and feel something and have empathy for people and see things from another point of view.

  Cherien Dabis

  People, Empathy, Point Of View

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It's very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.

  Winona Ryder

  Beautiful, Bed, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  Technology, Thinking, Magic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see; you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

  Bob Balaban

  Mean, Ideas, Special

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 20, 2013

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• My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen.

  Christopher Nolan

  Character, Light, Movement

  Source: collider.com

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• I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.

  Theophilus London

  Theater, Soothing

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• 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.

  Leonard Maltin

  Dvds, Games, Alternatives

  "In the Money" with Andy Serwer, Allen Wastler, Carrie Lee, edition.cnn.com. October 29, 2005.

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• You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

  Ice Cube

  Want, Pay, Good Times

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

  Juno Temple

  Character, Thinking, Questioning Why

  Source: collider.com

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• The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

  Sonia Braga

  Couple, Documentaries, Ruins

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

  Winona Ryder

  Mind, Really Sad, Old Movie

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

  Tim Burton

  Saws, Would Be, Theater

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• I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.

  Liana Liberato

  Softball, Soccer, People

  "Liana Liberato Talks ERASED, Relating to Her Character, Working with Aaron Eckhart, STUCK IN LOVE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 22, 2013.

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• The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with a couple of friends at the movie theater to go see a movie, I can't remember which one it was, and we went to go see this movie instead that was rated R. That was sort of a defining moment, that was probably the first time I had ever lied to my parents about something.

  Dan Byrd

  Couple, Lying, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Beautiful, Real, Nice

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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