““Quite simply, the Church is not a movie theater. It does not need a “silver screen” in order to be more relatable to modern people. A movie theater is a place where we collectively sit down to watch the unreal, the made up, the world of drama, fantasy, and pretend. We watch these dramas, comedies, or adventures to be moved to tears, to laughter, or to an adrenaline high. We watch them in order to be manipulated into feeling something that is out of the ordinary – something that we want to feel at that particular moment. We are complicit in this, of course. We pay our money for the privilege of having our emotions manipulated by this world of make believe.””
![“Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.” quote by Roger Ebert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2d8/roger-ebert-655_audience_gene-siskel-often-mentioned-something-fr_61356.jpg)
