Michael Logan interviewed Keanu Reeves for TV Guide. Kudos to Mr. Logan. He asked some good questions based on content from Side by Side and was successful in drawing Keanu out on some of them.
On Mr. Logan’s comment that he seemed moved by the digital vs. celluloid debate, Keanu said:
I am! I feel a kind of sadness about it, really. Maybe you can chalk it up to nostalgia, since I grew up in this business working on film. This is my life! This is art versus technology, art versus commerce. This is 100 years of Hollywood history giving way to a new filmmaking process — an evolution revolution — that some feel is superior and some don’t. I still think of a beautiful film print as an object of art, an object of glory. For all the benefits of digital filmmaking — and there are so many —we are losing something very special here.
When asked if directors of yesteryear such as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and David Lean would have hated the digital revolution, Keanu offered:
I’m not so sure! I bet they would have liked the sensitivity of digital. It’s so fluid. All the men you mention were known for their visuals and their incredible camera movements and they might well have embraced it. Certainly Hitchcock would have been intrigued.
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