“We don’t want to see the small screen become the primary viewing vehicle for pictures,” Siskel said on one of these “Top 10 Cassettes” episodes. “It has to be the big screen, because if people start to say, ‘I’ll wait [to see it] at home,’ then you’ll never see The Right Stuff made. They’ll never make a big-screen epic. They’ll make these intense personal dramas which don’t suffer as much, like Terms of Endearment, when you see them on a small screen. And that would be a disaster for the movie business. It wouldn’t be the movies. It would be TV.”
