How to run a movie theater

Moving pictures, silent films, the cinema, movies: these are all names for one of the most important modern art mediums in the history of human existence. A great story’s best qualities—its depth of meaning, clarity (or ambiguity) of message, its bold, invigorated themes, its tragic, heroic, supernatural characters—all of these elements leap off of the page and come to life on the silver screen. Suddenly, the theater of the imagination becomes a living drama, a realization of the exact ideas of the creator. Suddenly, a man or woman with an important idea has another truly powerful method to communicate that idea to the world.