With Star Wars: The Force Awakens coming out soon on iTunes, the director of the box-office smash says its a "nightmare" to think of people watching the big-screen sci-fi adventure on a mobile phone.
"Anyone who makes movies will say: 'Please don't watch my movies on that,"' JJ Abrams, 49, the writer-director of the latest installment in the Star Wars franchise, told a seminar at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin.
"It is the nightmare of every storyteller that people are going to watch something you made on something so small," he said, adding it was inevitable that people would find it more convenient to watch the movie on a handheld device.
Walt Disney Co.'s The Force Awakens is the third-highest grossing film ever worldwide. It was made for about $US200 million (NZD$399.44 million) and has taken in more than $US2 billion globally.