The pandemic hastened the dominance of the web as the chief agent of entertainment. Big experience films will of course stay on as the friends and family outing mainstay. But viewing has already shifted to personal screens where the choice of time and content stays with the individual.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Movies are like magic tricks.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

The upper middle class here still has options for entertainment. We have Internet, Hollywood and books. But for the majority and the masses, there is only TV. A lot of them sit at home and watch TV as they can't afford other forms of entertainment. So, we try to do shows which have inspirational value.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Apart from exercising, reading and watching movies also keep me occupied.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life,' are movies we love with magic in them.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

I love action movies.

Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

I love movies.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

I love going to the movies; I grew up going to the movies. I didn't really watch TV, growing up, other than weird cartoons like 'Beavis & Butt-Head.'

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

There's nothing more American than movies.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Movies were my first love.

I'd always loved movies. I watch them all the time; my dad is a huge movie buff.

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.