"when the video camcorder came along, it seduced the nation with its accessibility: no need to change the film cartridges every three minutes, no hassling with a temperamental projector, no screens. But folks who switched to video weren't stepping up, they were stepping over, trading away the look and theatricality of film because they shared the same sin that leads to fast-food joints: the I-want-it-now syndrome. They traded taste for prompt delivery."

- Randall Tierney, American Film, 1990