Wondering whether at least half of the Hollywood directors are thinking a like with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. Perhaps it’s just two of them. I think Avatar movie would not be the Avatar movie without current state of the technology.

According to UPI, U.S. film director Oliver Stone said the progression of technology was not necessarily a friend to those who tell stories on film.

Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Stone said he watched his children watching a film on the diminutive screen of a cell phone, while “trying to multitask.”

The experience, he said, was a bummer, “very depressing to people like me,” the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

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