We know that Christopher Nolan isn’t the type of director to give into peer pressure, especially when it comes to the difference between IMAX and 3-D. In this new interview, we get to hear the director’s opinion of 3-D in general and how it effects the spectacle of a film.

Thanks to Batman-News (via CBM) for the interview segment!

“Warner Bros. would have been very happy, but I said to the guys there that I wanted it to be stylistically consistent with the first two films and we were really going to push the IMAX thing to create a very high-quality image. I find stereoscopic imaging too small scale and intimate in its effect. 3-D is a misnomer. Films are 3-D. The whole point of photography is that it’s three-dimensional. The thing with stereoscopic imaging is it gives each audience member an individual perspective. It’s well suited to video games and other immersive technologies, but if you’re looking for an audience experience, stereoscopic is hard to embrace. I prefer the big canvas, looking up at an enormous screen and at an image that feels larger than life. When you treat that stereoscopically, and we’ve tried a lot of tests, you shrink the size so the image becomes a much smaller window in front of you. So the effect of it, and the relationship of the image to the audience, has to be very carefully considered. And I feel that in the initial wave to embrace it, that wasn’t considered in the slightest.”

It’s very refreshing to hear the auteur’s view on the third-dimension, and it’s even more refreshing to see a director stand up to the studio and insist on a non 3-D approach to film-making. What do you think?