[how digital technology has changed his work] Most of all, the digital revolution has changed the way that directors work. There's a famous memo in which
David O. Selznick warned
King Vidor not to do more than five takes of each shot while filming
Duelo al sol (1946). Today, thanks to the low cost of digital technology, one can shoot countless takes, and with several cameras! Many movies are shot with three, four, or even eight cameras. That destroys any notion of the director's point of view. There are still directors who shoot with only one camera, such as Asghar
Asghar Farhadi, Pedro
Pedro Almodóvar, or Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma, with whom I'll shoot
Sweet Vengeance. But there are directors who have no idea what they're going to edit while they're shooting. They use three or four cameras and the end result looks like a television broadcast. [2018]
