Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

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).