As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

Examples include Rutger Hauer in Batman Begins Eric Roberts and Anthony Michael Hall in The Dark Knight Tom Berenger in Inception and Matthew Modine in The Dark Knight Rises. Theatricality and deception are embedded as internal themes and also function as Nolan's commentary on the artifice of filmmaking itself. ' He's fully engaged — in every aspect of the film.

In July 2012 Christopher Nolan became the youngest director to be honoured with a hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. 6 billion in North America and US$3. Nolan co-founded Syncopy Films with his wife Emma Thomas and they have produced all of his films since The Prestige (2006).