Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan has revealed that he was hugely inspired by Star Wars and the idea that you could create different worlds.

Nolan returned to the director's chair last autumn with Interstellar - which went on to be both a critical hit and a commercial smash - as he explored space for the first time as a filmmaker.

Nolan has also enjoyed success with the Batman trilogy and Inception in recent years, and reveals that Star Wars and the re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey has a huge impact on him as a child.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the director said: "I went to the movies a lot as a kid. That first Star Wars, that George Lucas directed, came out in 1977 when I was seven years old.

"It made a huge impression on me, in terms of the scope of it and the idea that you could create an entirely different experience for the audience, literally any world, more than one world, a whole different galaxy.

"They also re-released [Stanley] Kubrick's 2001 when I was seven, so I got to see that on a huge screen, and it was really a thrilling experience.

"I don't remember being remotely concerned about what it meant or whether it was elusive or confusing; I just remember the visceral nature of seeing spaceships, seeing other worlds and being taken to other dimensions. That experience was huge for me."

Nolan has always wanted to be a filmmaker and went from making small war movies with his dad's Super 8 camera to making films about space.

He continued: "I'd already started playing around with my dad's Super 8 camera, making little war films and stuff. And then, after Star Wars, my films all became space films.

"I think when I was about 12 or 13, I want to say, I started to begin to identify with the idea of the director as the sort of controlling force, or the closest analogy to what I was doing on my Super 8 camera, you know, just making images and putting them together."

Nolan teamed up with brother Jonathan to pen the screenplay for Interstellar, while Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine were all part of an all-star cast.


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