'Nuff Said: Jack Nicholson in Esquire

...moviegoers are no longer able to connect emotionally with a good old-fashioned film.

"It's like a dead nerve," he [Jack] says. "A whole generation -- maybe two generations now -- all they know are special effects. Not just all they know. That's all they want."

During an Esquire interview with Sean Penn about his directorial Into the Wild

And the Sean Penn rebound (on Jack's comment)...

"They'll get back there. Chocolate cake is not a need; it's a luxury. Dreaming is a need -- a survival need. And it can pass up epochs -- generations can die off -- but it's in the DNA of mankind. It cycles back to the point where people say, 'No, no, no, no -- I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna not dream, and I'm not gonna not feel.' Even if you get a numb generation, that's not the death of it. It has an Easter."

Clarification: Jack was hanging around with Sean at the time of the interview.  The interview was with Sean.  Into the Wild was directed by Sean.  Jack was just hanging around.