Director Christopher Nolan is known for avoiding computer-generated effects in his films, preferring instead to capture all the action in-camera. But Nolan’s penchant for doing things the old-fashioned way goes beyond what moviegoers see on screen.
In an interview with The The Hollywood Reporter This week, Nolan revealed that his “kids would probably say I’m a complete Luddite” because of how anti-tech he is in his work life.
Director of “Tenet”, which in 2020 Told people That he uses a flip phone over a smartphone, said he chooses not to be too “involved” with technology to stay focused.
“It’s about the level of distraction,” Nolan said. “If I’m producing my own content and writing my own scripts, it’s not going to be very useful for me to be on a smartphone all day.”
Back in 2020, she described herself as “easily annoyed”.
“I really don’t want to access the Internet every time I’m bored,” he said at the time. “I do my best thinking in the kind of in-between moments that people now fill with online activity, so that benefits me.”
But his old-school ways don’t stop there. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the computer on which the 52-year-old writes his scripts is not connected to the Internet.
Nolan also prefers to send his scripts to the actors instead of sending them digitally. While he said it gave him a “reputation for working in secrecy,” Nolan said the reality is anything but.
“It’s not privacy, it’s privacy,” he said. “It’s being able to try things, make mistakes, be more adventurous. And being able to sit down with someone who’s read what you’ve written and get their feedback on it, see how they connect with it in a very human, face-to-face way.”
Dating back to his 2000 breakout hit “Memento,” Nolan has written every one of his films except 2002’s “Insomnia.” His latest film, the highly anticipated “Oppenheimer” hits theaters on July 21.
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