James Cameron

So what's left?

What's left is...

In our day-to-day life, we're very fragmented and scattered and distracted and multitasking and we're scrolling and we're typing and we're connected and multichanneling all simultaneously.

Very rarely do we just sit in a meditative state and just focus.

People who practice mindfulness and yoga and things like that, they know how to do that.

And they do it to clear their mind.

But how often do we do it where we focus on a received experience?

You know, some people will sit and read a novel for hours and hours.

I think they're a dying breed, unfortunately.

But the movie theater is one of the last bastions of a focused entertainment where we make a deal with ourselves before we go there.

Before we leave our homes, we make a deal with ourselves that for two or three hours, we're going to be undistracted.

And then all of a sudden it's like the world goes away and you're on that journey and nothing else matters for that brief period of time.

And I think that's the real magic of the theatrical experience.

And it boils down to one simple thing.

You don't have a remote.

It's that simple.

You can't pause it.

You can't go order a pizza.

You can't pause it and go to the bathroom.

You can't be in a room with other family members who are talking and you pause it so you can hear their lame comment.