We are at the bright dawn of the movies' digital age, but the Hollywood establishment still has its shades drawn.
The Oscar revelers seemed unaware that movies have two big problems: the way they're made and the way they're shown.
Rodriguez: "It's nice because you don't have this huge army. It's a commando group of people really into the project."
Spielberg: "I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor with mini-strands of film around his neck."
To directors, moviegoing is an almost religious act: a Mass experience.
The genius of late 20th century entrepreneurism was to get people to pay a lot for things they were used to getting cheap (coffee) or free (water).
All five of last year's top worldwide grossers were fantasies, and all but one (The Chronicles of Narnia) a sequel or a remake.
