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Chris [ Nolan] And I Have A Strange Way Of Working From The Non-movie Process, Where After All These Conversations And Reading The Script And More Conversations, Chris Went Out And Shot The Films And The First Thing He Did, He Wouldn't Show It To Me Until I Had Written The Music - Not Out Of Meanness, Or Anything, It Just Sort Of Seemed An Interesting Idea To See If There Was Some Synchronicity And Letting Me Use My Imagination To The Fullest Instead Of Being Constricted By Cuts And Images.

I Studied English Literature. I Wasn’t A Very Good Student, But One Thing I Did Get From It, While I Was Making Films At The Same Time With The College Film Society, Was That I Started Thinking About The Narrative Freedoms That Authors Had Enjoyed For Centuries And It Seemed To Me That Filmmakers Should Enjoy Those Freedoms As Well.

Say You Have A Headline Like "mountain Bike Stolen," And Then You Read The Story, Read Another Story About It The Next Day, And Then The Next Week, And Then The Next Year. News Is A Process Of Expansion, The Filling In Of Detail, And Making Narrative Connections - Not Based On Chronology, But Based On Features Of The Story. There Are Narrative Connections Made Between Props, Between Characters, Between Situations, And So Forth.

My Approach With Actors Is To Try And Give Them Whatever It Is They Need From Me. Direction To Me Is About Listening And Responding And Realizing How Much They Need To Know From Me And How Much They Have Figured Out For Themselves, Really.

Every Film Should Have Its Own World, A Logic And Feel To It That Expands Beyond The Exact Image That The Audience Is Seeing.