To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.
Christopher NolanI remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.
Christopher NolanWhen I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.
Christopher NolanI have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
Christopher NolanPeriod films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.
Christopher Nolan