During a CNN town hall with actor Matthew McConaughey, Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet stated the obvious: The once-great American pastime of going to the movies is in real danger of losing its cultural centrality.

“I admire people, and I’ve done it myself, who go on a talk show and go, ‘Hey, we gotta keep movie theaters alive. You know, we gotta keep this genre alive,’ and another part of me feels like, if people want to see it, like Barbie, like Oppenheimer, they’re going to go see it and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it,” Chalamet said. “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera, and, you know, things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive,’ even though it’s like, no one cares about this anymore. All respect to all the ballet and opera people out there.”