John Williams

More than anything, you know, from Eastern Europe, from Brooklyn, from across the country to Hollywood. And really creating from the ground up the business that has been so wonderful all through the last century. Now, of course, threatened by all kinds of forces, technology of all kinds and worldwide production of film that...

More than anything, you know, from Eastern Europe, from Brooklyn, from across the country to Hollywood. And really creating from the ground up the business that has been so wonderful all through the last century. Now, of course, threatened by all kinds of forces, technology of all kinds and worldwide production of film that...

More than anything, you know, from Eastern Europe, from Brooklyn, from across the country to Hollywood. And really creating from the ground up the business that has been so wonderful all through the last century. Now, of course, threatened by all kinds of forces, technology of all kinds and worldwide production of film that...

that not eclipses Hollywood, but it puts it in a different kind of a frame of lighting and creativity.

that not eclipses Hollywood, but it puts it in a different kind of a frame of lighting and creativity.

that not eclipses Hollywood, but it puts it in a different kind of a frame of lighting and creativity.

Well, probably the access and the easy availability to all manner of things on film and whatever that is available at home. Right. And so the great, I mean, just to flip about it, I mean, the great impediments might be said to be traffic jams and parking lots. Yeah, yeah. become more difficult I think for people and the alternatives more easy to access. But we lose something. I think there's a...

Well, probably the access and the easy availability to all manner of things on film and whatever that is available at home. Right. And so the great, I mean, just to flip about it, I mean, the great impediments might be said to be traffic jams and parking lots. Yeah, yeah. become more difficult I think for people and the alternatives more easy to access. But we lose something. I think there's a...

Well, probably the access and the easy availability to all manner of things on film and whatever that is available at home. Right. And so the great, I mean, just to flip about it, I mean, the great impediments might be said to be traffic jams and parking lots. Yeah, yeah. become more difficult I think for people and the alternatives more easy to access. But we lose something. I think there's a...

The old movie theaters were kinds of sort of temples where people would gather. It was a communal connection. Once a week you'd go to the movies or twice a week in this special atmosphere that had a spiritual vibe to it. And people would collect them there. It was almost like going to church in a way. The proscenium, the beautiful theater and so on.

The old movie theaters were kinds of sort of temples where people would gather. It was a communal connection. Once a week you'd go to the movies or twice a week in this special atmosphere that had a spiritual vibe to it. And people would collect them there. It was almost like going to church in a way. The proscenium, the beautiful theater and so on.

The old movie theaters were kinds of sort of temples where people would gather. It was a communal connection. Once a week you'd go to the movies or twice a week in this special atmosphere that had a spiritual vibe to it. And people would collect them there. It was almost like going to church in a way. The proscenium, the beautiful theater and so on.

And there was a magic in all of that, I think, that attracted people. And we don't have that anymore. Even in newly constructed theaters have far less, they're utilitarian, of course, but far less imagination in the way the stages are constructed and so on.

And there was a magic in all of that, I think, that attracted people. And we don't have that anymore. Even in newly constructed theaters have far less, they're utilitarian, of course, but far less imagination in the way the stages are constructed and so on.

And there was a magic in all of that, I think, that attracted people. And we don't have that anymore. Even in newly constructed theaters have far less, they're utilitarian, of course, but far less imagination in the way the stages are constructed and so on.

I think in terms, I don't know if this is off the subject, but we think of the music of Bach three or four hundred years ago. there were no concert halls. If you wanted to hear music, you had to go to church to hear an organ, to hear people sing. And that's where you received your music. You wanted to hear a Bach cantata, you heard it in church, not in the concert hall.

I think in terms, I don't know if this is off the subject, but we think of the music of Bach three or four hundred years ago. there were no concert halls. If you wanted to hear music, you had to go to church to hear an organ, to hear people sing. And that's where you received your music. You wanted to hear a Bach cantata, you heard it in church, not in the concert hall.

I think in terms, I don't know if this is off the subject, but we think of the music of Bach three or four hundred years ago. there were no concert halls. If you wanted to hear music, you had to go to church to hear an organ, to hear people sing. And that's where you received your music. You wanted to hear a Bach cantata, you heard it in church, not in the concert hall.

The concert hall is in a way constructed to ring the antiquarian bells, I guess you could say, of our collective memory. that we're gathered for something very, very special and we listen to Beethoven in this atmosphere. Right. Or we go and we watch Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in that atmosphere.

The concert hall is in a way constructed to ring the antiquarian bells, I guess you could say, of our collective memory. that we're gathered for something very, very special and we listen to Beethoven in this atmosphere. Right. Or we go and we watch Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in that atmosphere.