. The evening’s sentiment continued the running theme of the four-day conference: celebrating and preserving the theatrical experience.director recounted that he’d recently been walking by a Regal cinema in New York and a young man passing him said, “You make the world a better place” and kept on going. “The first thing I thought is, my agents never said anything that nice to me,” Nolan quipped.
Nolan then owned up, “If I’m being completely honest, what the young man actually said was ‘You make the world a better place, Mr Sorkin’.” More seriously, he added, “I think the sentiment still stands. It stands not just for the great Aaron Sorkin, but for all of us who work in movies because what movies provide is entertainment, it’s enjoyment, it’s emotion, it’s catharsis, it’s fear, it’s everything. It’s a wonderful thing to be involved in. We’re all incredibly privileged to be a part of it.
But the answer comes soon enough, she explained to exhibitors in the audience, and it’s usually “when we’re standing at the back of one of your theaters watching one of the first paid audiences watch our movie… There’s something about watching an audience who’s bothered to come out of their house, sit within those four walls of the theater and be transported by the stores that we get to tell that makes sense of everything that we do.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 27: Zendaya accepts the Star of the Year Award during the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards Zendaya was next honored with the Star of the Year Award and told theater owners, “I love what I do so, so much and I’m so grateful for all of you because without all of you what I do wouldn’t have a home or a place to go.” The eventual