"The real experience comes when we can influence a community to congregate in a strange, dark place. At the end of a really good movie experience, we are all united... There's nothing like that."
"It happens in movies. It happens in concerts. It happens in ballet and opera! Spielberg was describing what he sees as the uniquely communal experience of the arts - the feeling of gathering together with strangers in a dark room and emerging united after the story ends."
Steven Spielberg discussed the unique communal experience of the arts during a podcast conversation at SXSW, highlighting how gathering together in shared spaces creates unity among strangers. He emphasized that the real value of arts experiences comes from influencing communities to congregate in intimate settings and emerge connected after experiencing a story together. Spielberg's comments about ballet and opera drew audience cheers and entered an ongoing online debate sparked by Timothée Chalamet's earlier dismissive remarks about these traditional performing arts forms.
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