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The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.
It's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing.
I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.
I went around the corner to motion pictures.
I don't see all the movies that come out.
I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.
Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.
Television. That's where movies go when they die.
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.'
I'm a werewolf, not a cretin. We have Blockbuster cards.
I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.
We don't have home movies in my family. We have people's exhibit A.
Movies are an expensive business.
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?'
The path between intention to watch a movie and the purchase of a ticket - I want to make it as short as possible. The holy grail is Amazon One Click. One tap and I own it.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.
I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient.
I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.
The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.
Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.
The fact that you can see a movie at home, it's great. You're making it for as many people to see it as possible. And that's nice.
I don't really watch movies. I don't own a TV.
Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD.
Netflix is SO overrated.
I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.
Hollywood movies are seen throughout the world.
Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.
The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp.
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.
All my good movies, nobody sees.
I'm a movie buff.
I'm a huge movie nerd.
I don't go to the cinema much.Cinema-- Tom Felton
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
Our platform is a one-stop shop, from marketing and promotion through to ticketing. But even in the early days, in 2006-07, when we were mostly carrying shortform video, we became the premier movie marketing platform.
When I started half, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.
We live in an era where each of us has a massive catalog of film and television available through the internet at the swipe of a finger. To get folks out of their homes for a piece of art or entertainment, I think you need to offer something they can't get on Netflix or Amazon.
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.
A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.
I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12 ... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch.
There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.
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.
When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.
I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
So many large movies come to you with a huge marketing campaign and it's like you have to see this movie this weekend, otherwise you'll be culturally bankrupt and can't converse with your friends.
Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
Movies are just ridiculously expensive.
Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater ... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.
Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.
I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.
You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
Indiana Jones and the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, coming never to a theater near you.
Forget movies - I'd rather choose books!
Netflix changed the economics of offering niches and, in doing so, reshaped our understanding about what people actually want to watch.
I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.
I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.
I haven't been to a movie in a year and a half.
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them ... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.
The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.
There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.
You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
We're going to do a challenge. I'm going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare - and we'll see which happens first.
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.
People say, 'If you open a movie online at the same time as in movie theatres, no one is going to go to the movies.' That's just not true. People love to go out and have a shared experience; they always will.
If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and popcorn, it's understandable that people are opting to buy a movie on DVD for fifteen dollars, even if it's no-frills.
It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.
There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.
Movies don't have borders.
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.
The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.
There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.
I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.
I love IMDB. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.
When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.
A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.
I win my awards at the box office.
I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.
Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
Films are just consumables.
inside out, with all the Sturm und
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.