Alfonso Cuarón, director of Gravity
I don’t think 3D is better than 2D; it’s just two different tools. Some films work better in 2D and some other films work amazingly in 3D. You also have to know that 3D is a trade-off: You gain the three-dimensionality, the volume, and the depth, but you also lose a lot when it comes to the quality of the presentation. Depending on the 3D projection system, you lose more or less the blacks, the range of color, and there’s a certain amount of ghosting.
For my next film, there is a possibility that I go back to 2D just because of the nature of that film. If I want to shoot a movie in which the quality of the photography is foremost—I’m talking of the dynamic range, the blacks ...