Cinematic Engagement Quotes

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

When I truly like a film or my part, it shows on screen.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

A friend forced me to watch 'The Lord of the Rings,' and even though it was a fantastic movie, I could only watch one.

If I haven't got someone to leave in five minutes for at least one of my films, then I'm not doing my job.

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have.

The worst thing ever for me is go see a movie, and the next day I go, 'What did I do last night? I have no memory of this $300 million movie I watched because I felt nothing.'

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people. With technology now, people are getting more and more isolated. I like the community coming around the story. You don't have that with a DVD. People go home, they're tired from work, they can turn it off. It doesn't make you commit the same way, if you can control the movie. More difficult movies, it's too easy to turn them off. All the time, I see movies I know if I had seen it on DVD, I wouldn't have hung with it. If you see it on the screen, you hang with it and it pays off better than a movie you can easily sit through on DVD.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

The grand scale and immersive nature of The IMAX Experience gives 'Spiderwick' a brand new level of excitement. In IMAX theatres, fans will be drawn into the movie even further and feel as if they are actually part of the story.

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.