Steven Spielberg has resisted the urgings of friend George Lucas to shoot Indiana Jones 4 digitally, and jokes that he is the last holdout in Hollywood still cutting film negative.

“Producer and friend George Lucas tried at length to convince Spielberg to film the movie digitally but Steven resisted. He joked that he is the last person in Hollywood still cutting the film negatives, and that he learned from the greats and they all worked that way. He says that he has still never used an Avid to edit, and won’t do so until Tintin.

Steven gushed about how a film frame is alive with movement and film grain and that digital video is “too perfect.â€? Lucas tried to convince Steven that they could add the film grain to the digital image, which Spielberg found totally amusing because doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose? And wouldn’t it just be easier to shoot the whole thing on film.”

So there you have it. Not only does one of the most prolific active directors choose to shoot film, he insists on editing the “old fashioned” way as well. And when Indy 4 hits theaters, I believe it will serve as a reminder that format choices matter little in the hands of a talented professional.