20 Things You Didn't Know About Christopher Nolan

It's no secret that Nolan is one of cinema's most staunch advocates of the theatrical cinematic experience, and this led to him making a less-than-charitable comment about streaming giant Netflix in late 2017. Nolan said:

"Netflix has a bizarre aversion to supporting theatrical films...They have this mindless policy of everything having to be simultaneously streamed and released, which is obviously an untenable model for theatrical presentation. So they're not even getting in the game, and I think they're missing a huge opportunity...I think the investment that Netflix is putting into interesting filmmakers and interesting projects would be more admirable if it weren't being used as some kind of bizarre leverage against shutting down theaters...It’s so pointless. I don’t really get it."

But Nolan later admitted he wrote a personal letter to Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos to apologise for the comment, adding:

"I should have been more polite. I said what I believe, but I was undiplomatic in the way I expressed it. I wasn't giving any context to the frankly revolutionary nature of what Netflix has done. It's extraordinary. They need appropriate respect for that, which I have."