I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.
Christopher NolanI always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Christopher NolanThe problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
Christopher NolanFilm is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
Christopher NolanI believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.
Christopher NolanI like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you've been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.
Christopher Nolan