Christopher Nolan feels studios are thinking about movies all wrong

“Whether for budgetary reasons or reasons of control, studios now look at a screenplay as a series of events and say ‘this is the essence of what the film is,’” said Nolan, who famously hates series of events, in a recent interview with The Telegraph.

“That’s completely at odds with how cinema developed, right from the Lumière brothers’ train pulling into the station, as a pure audiovisual experience. But it’s a very popular fallacy—sometimes with critics as well, quite frankly—that all that matters is the scale of the story being told,” he continued.

Nolan (cleverly) neglected to wade into the Marvel of it all, as so many of his compatriots have done. Instead, he took the time to shout out the Star Wars franchise, a series of films he said were formative to his early movie-going experience.

“People will tell you that the success of Star Wars had nothing to do with its visual effects, and it was all down to its great story, but, I mean, clearly that’s not the case,” he said. “It is indeed a great story, but it’s also an incredible visual and aural experience. So this willful denial of what movies actually are has set in.” Well, if you’re one of those audience members who feels like they need a reminder of Cinema’s past, present, and future, the weekend’s double feature should provide a great, almost all-encompassing survey.