Audience Quote by Mike White

Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

— Vincent Cassel

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly unless you have the right…

— Laura Dern

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

— Paul Feig

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way…

— Harvey Fierstein

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about…

— Christian Bale

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

— Athol Fugard

I believe that films are meant for entertainment, but in that process, you have the possibility to think about what kind of entertainment you're…

— Rajiv Menon

I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an…

— Christopher Nolan

I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film, you just…

— Susan Sarandon

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is…

— Salman Khan