Why Christopher Nolan Thinks It’s His Duty to Only Make Big Budget Movies

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest as one of the
biggest names in filmmaking.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Christopher Nolan is capable of getting massive budgets from studios
to help realize his visions, but he's also a huge
fan of movies that other directors managed to create with
limited resources, naming recent movies After Sun and Past Lives
as shining examples. And while he appreciates the talent it
takes to work with that limited palette, don't expect them
to make a shift to a smaller scale shoot. Nolan
tells time, I'm drawn to working at a large scale

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because I know how fragile the opportunity to marshal those
resources is. I know there are so many filmmakers out
there in the world who would give their teeth to
have the resources I put together, so I feel I
have the responsibility to use them in the most productive
and interesting way. Christopher Nolan's thoughts on the privilege of
working with big budgets, he certainly justifies those budgets. His
last film, Oppenheimer, which was made for around one hundred million,

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raked in nearly one billion at the box office.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's direct from Hollywood,