20 Things You Didn't Know About Christopher Nolan
3. He Deliberately Imposes Tight Editing Deadlines Upon Himself
Completing the final cut of a movie takes months of hard graft in the editing suite, yet despite the enormous editorial complexity of Nolan's movies, he intentionally imposes tight deadlines upon himself while completing the first cut of the film.
The idea is that Nolan wants his work to have a natural rhythm rather than feel overly contrived or laboured over. He said of his process, "I always think of editing as instinctive or impressionist. Not to think too much, in a way, and feel it more."
Considering that three of his movies to date have received Best Film Editing Oscar nominations - with two eventually becoming actual wins - and Tenet is quite likely to be the fourth, it's evidently a method that produces spectacular results.