The resistance to [black-and-white] is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.
Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.
Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.
Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.