Daily Inspiration Quote by Ivan Reitman

Reitman is smuggling a whole argument about attention into a sentence that sounds like small talk. “Also” makes it feel like an aside, the kind you toss off in an interview, but it’s a quiet defense of the theatrical experience from someone who built a career on crowd-pleasing movies. The line doesn’t bother with craft jargon; it points at something everyone’s felt: the same film hits differently when your body is in a room designed to remove exit ramps.

The intent is partly economic, partly aesthetic, but mostly behavioral. The theater is a contract: you pay, you show up, you surrender your phone, your pauses, your multitasking. DVD (and, by extension, home viewing) turns film into a controllable object. You can stop it, snack through it, scroll over it, domesticate it. That shift in power changes the movie’s authority. Jokes land less like communal punctuation and more like optional interruptions. Suspense can’t tighten as effectively when you can deflate it with a bathroom break and a remote.

The subtext is Reitman’s generational vantage point. Coming up in an era when box office was the primary conversation, he’s resisting the idea that a movie is just “content” that survives translation across formats without loss. He’s not pleading for nostalgia; he’s pointing out that medium isn’t packaging. It’s part of the performance, and the performance depends on a captive, synchronized audience to feel like an event rather than a file.