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Leadership Quote by Dan Glickman

"I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn"

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There is a deliberately old-fashioned absolutism in Glickman’s line: “the only way” lands like a gauntlet tossed at the feet of streaming culture. Coming from a politician, the sentence isn’t just nostalgia; it’s a policy-flavored pledge disguised as a lifestyle preference. The repetition of “big” works like campaign cadence, turning scale into virtue and making the theater feel less like a venue than a civic monument. Even the popcorn isn’t incidental. It’s the tactile proof of participation, a small ritual that signals you’re not merely consuming content but joining an event.

The subtext is about what gets lost when movies become infinitely accessible. Watching at home makes film private, frictionless, and easily interrupted. The theater, by contrast, imposes a kind of democratic discipline: strangers share the same story in the same time, under the same rules (lights down, phones away, no pausing). For a public servant, that matters. It mirrors faith in institutions that pull individuals into a common experience, however fleeting.

Context does a lot of work here, too. Glickman has long been tied to the entertainment industry’s advocacy ecosystem, where “theatrical exclusivity” isn’t aesthetic snobbery so much as an economic lifeline. So the sentence doubles as cultural defense and industry argument: if we stop treating moviegoing as a special occasion, we don’t just change how films are watched; we change which films get made, who gets paid, and whether communal culture is something we still build on purpose.

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Glickman, Dan. (n.d.). I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-someone-who-believes-the-only-way-to-see-a-41526/

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Glickman, Dan. "I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-someone-who-believes-the-only-way-to-see-a-41526/.

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"I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-someone-who-believes-the-only-way-to-see-a-41526/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Dan Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is a Politician from USA.

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