'I feel I have the responsibility': Christopher Nolan explains why his movies are 'larger than life'

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Christopher Nolan admires movies that are comparatively of smaller scale, but he has no plans to take that road.

The eight-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker talked about his future plans and style of direction.

Christopher Nolan takes it as a responsibility

Talking to Time magazine recently, he said, “I’m drawn to working at a large scale because I know how fragile the opportunity to marshal those resources is.”

Nolan added, “I know that there are so many filmmakers out there in the world who would give their eye teeth to have the resources I put together, and I feel I have the responsibility to use them in the most productive and interesting way.”

His latest venture ‘Oppenheimer’ hit a production budget of $100 million, however, it was lower than his usual standards. To give you the idea, his movie ‘Tenet’ was over $200 million.

A genius move from Christopher Nolan to keep 'Oppenheimer' within budget

For ’Oppenheimer,’ Nolan wrapped up the filming in 60 days, cutting down 30 days to channel the film's budget to production design and set locations, shares production designer Ruth De Jong.

“It felt like a $100 million indie. This is not ‘Tenet,’” De Jong said previously, adding “Chris wanted to shoot all over the United States…just plane tickets alone and putting crew up all over the place [is expensive]. Not to mention I have to build Los Alamos, it doesn’t exist. That’s where I really felt like it was impossible. Chris said, ‘Forget the money. Let’s just design what we want.’ So that’s what we did, and when construction first budgeted my town it was $20 million. Chris was like, ‘Yeah, no. Stop.’”

She revealed that Nolan did “the most incredible thing,” so “to achieve all of the desired looks and designs,” the filmmaker told her, “I’ve got to go do my homework.

This meant he wanted her to reschedule the shooting and compress it to save some budget. De Jong said that ‘Oppenheimer’ was originally set for an 85-day shoot or even more.

“We made the movie unbelievably quickly,” star Cillian Murphy said on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast. “The pace of that was insane.”

Oppenheimer has won 13 Academy nominations and has already bagged the top awards at the Golden Globes and Critic’s Choice Awards.