Steven Spielberg is amazing, I would think if you were to ask fellow Directors who the best Director of all time was, he'd be in the top five, if not in first place...and that's a topic for another feature! Recently he was intereviewed on what he thought about the digital revolution in cinema, and he gave some honest and interesting answers.

From the interview in TIME come some interesting comments:

I'm too nostalgic to make my movies digitally. I'm the last person in Hollywood who cuts his film on film. I still love cutting on film. The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. It's a choice.

How bizarre is that for such a talent, someone who has seemingly embraced digital and touts digitally heavy movies through Dreamworks. Still he's hanging in there but does recognise the benefits.

For me, sadly, it's the inevitable medium...Dreamworks certainly recognizes the tens of millions of dollars that will be saved in distribution costs in not having to make five, six, seven thousand 35mm prints...

He goes on to say that this is all being done for the cost saving, not for the quality benefits, Hollywood isn't really thinking about that and it's just a side benefit. No surprise there then!

He does state his views on the home cinema market though, and I agree with him to degree. There is nothing like being in that cinema, but for audio and visual quality, you're still better with a semi-decent home cinema system.

Although I have to go on record saying that I am not in favor of a DVD coming out the same day as the film opens, because I really believe that the average home system is far inferior to a movie house. And a lot of it is the social magic of going out to the movies, seeing it with a lot of people you have never met and sharing an experience. I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.