Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.
I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.
Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.
The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.
Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.
Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.
The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.
Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.
When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.
I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.
I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.
Somehow people always had popcorn.
It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.
I don't watch any of my own movies, but I love going to the movies. To me, there is nothing more relaxing or gratifying than sitting down in the dark and having some popcorn and watching a great movie.
When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everybody from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.