Steven Spielberg

And it doesn't preclude...

watching something by yourself.

I'm just saying that it's an additive.

It enlarges the experience, makes it bigger than life when you watch a movie with people.

You have been a fierce advocate for people going to the physical movie theater, of course.

Listening to you talk, I wonder if you are in some way nostalgic for a time when there weren't as many choices, even though choices, of course, give people many more opportunities to tell stories.

Yeah.

I'm not really nostalgic for that.

I'm really not.

I love the options.

I love the amount of...

of choices out there.

The only negative thing about it is you can get sucked down the rabbit hole.

But also the options are the reasons why people aren't going to the theater, right?

No, not so much that.

Yes, I mean, everything's a distraction, but don't forget what a distraction television was in 1950.

There has been a pitch battle

For the audience, between television and movies, between the small screen and the ginormous screens, this has never changed.

This is nothing new.

The difference now is there are so many more options than just watching television.