Film is more than a vehicle for entertainment, it is an elixir for the soul.  No medium reflects a culture, its triumphs and failures, its aspirations and disappointments, its fantasizes and realities as diversely as the movies. 

Only film sees the world the same way people do. It creates mood and conveys emotional depth. But beyond its expressive richness, film also captures more raw information and, ultimately, more opportunities to touch the human soul.  
—Kodak

Consciously or not, even those who of us old enough to know better still regard the movies as a mirror. It’s not exactly that we go to them to learn how to behave, or that we  emulate what we see , but rather that we seek connections to, and reflections of, our ideal and actual selves. And we look for these shadows and illuminations, more than anywhere else, in the faces and postures of the actors, and in the carefully framed and foreshortened lives of the characters they inhibit. 
—A.O. Scott  New York Times  Feb 13, 2005
 
When a movie is good it is the result of some inner belief which is so strong that you (resonate) in spite of a stupid story.
—Jean Renoir

Movies elevate our sites, enlarge imagination. They remind us of what we know and help us stretch and change by providing us with a sensory catalyst for creative, cutting-edge reflection. Movies mirror us and invite us to go beyond the obvious. Their themes and images can powerfully equip us to see ourselves as we are at our worst, at our best, or help us invent new scrips about who we hope to be. Those of us brave enough to ask the big questions about the meaning of life are a transformative force in the world.