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Obviously, “True Grit” is a major player in this year’s Oscar race, and I asked him if it bothers him that many of the people voting on the awards watch these films on the screeners that are sent out, which aren’t even high-definition, and they’re often watermarked with things that obscure some of the image, which would seem to render them useless when voting on best cinematography.  “I notice the same problem even on set, when I see the director and everyone else and they want to watch dailies on their laptops.  Or maybe on a TV monitor.  These days, you don’t have dailies sessions in a theater.  And that affects the way people even compose their films now.  That’s just the reality of how films are viewed these days.”

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“Well, I quite liked at Dreamworks, the 3D that we experimented with on the animated films I was involved in.  But I don’t see in live-action… I think it’s like many things right now, like flashy camera work and fast cutting, are really just ways of hiding that there’s no story.  Instead of spending the money on 3D, they should spend the money on some decent scripts.  You don’t need 3D.  It’s a totally different experience watching a stereo film.  It’s more like an amusement park ride than a story.  I like watching films like paintings.  I don’t want to be inside them.  I want to look at them.”

Read the entire lengthy interview here: http://www.wbng.com/news/entertainment?feed=bim&id=112307949