Christopher Nolan’s 2014 movie Interstellar seems to have had a resurgence in popularity recently, with the director admitting the response to even his old films is the biggest compliment he could receive.
Christopher Nolan says it’s “really wonderful” to see how his films have stood the test of time.
The director has been doing the promo rounds for his new movie The Odyssey, which comes on the heels of other blockbusters such as Tenet, Dunkirk and Oppenheimer.
His 2014 movie Interstellar seems to have had a resurgence in popularity recently, with Christopher admitting the response to even his old films is the biggest compliment he could receive.
He told The Hindustan Times: “It really is an amazing thing, a fantastic thing, when something you’ve made years before continues to have a life.
‘And people tell you they’ve got something from it, a new generation of filmmakers who possibly was too young to see it when it first came out, or in some cases wasn’t even born when it first came out.
“That’s how long I’ve been doing this now. It’s really wonderful to see your work stand the test of time. There are so many different variables when you release a film, and I’m very aware of this right now, because I make films for a cinema audience.
“And so the film, for me, like The Odyssey, is not finished until it goes to the audience, and the audience sort of tells me what it is. And there are so many variables that go into that process, in terms of how a film is distributed, who it reaches, and when it reaches those people.
“So it’s been really, really gratifying to see Interstellar continue to have a life for a new generation of filmmakers. It’s really wonderful.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Christopher was asked about how he ensures he doesn’t become conceited because of the “pedestal” his fans often put him on.
To which he replied: “To do my job, I have to very much keep in touch with the things that drew me to filmmaking in the first place, and the things that I knew when I started out, as it were.
“If my films have had an impact on people, and if that sort of raises me in people’s estimation or whatever, wonderful though that is, it’s very irrelevant, has to be irrelevant to the craft of filmmaking, in which I’m a representative of the audience, and I have to have commonality with everybody who watches the film, and I have to make the film for the audience that I am a part of. “So it’s very important to see yourself and understand yourself as a member of the wider audience.”
Christopher Nolan: ‘It’s wonderful when my movies continue to have a life years later’
