Steven Soderbergh spoke at the San Francisco International Film Festival last month on the "State of Cinema." The entire talk is engaging and worth watching. A few short comments on technology deserve attention:

"I love all this new technology, it's great. It's smaller, lighter, faster, you can make a really good-looking movie for not a lot of money, and when people start to get weepy about celluloid, I think of this quote by Orson Welles when someone was talking to him about new technology, which he tended to embrace, and he said: "I don't want to wait on the tool, I want the tool to wait for me," which I thought was a good way to put it."

Due to great demand, the San Francisco Film Society put the video and its entire transcript online.