Hello and welcome my name is John August and this is episode 622 of script notes a

podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Our guest today is the writer director of the acclaimed

indie films The Following in Momento, who's gone on baked movies including the

prestige and somnia, interstellar inception, Tenet, and The Dark Night trilogy.

His latest film is Oppenheimer.

Welcome to the podcast, Christopher Nolan.

Thank you very much.

Oh, we're so excited to have you here.

It's great to finally meet you because I've known your brother, Jonah,

for a long time.

He's been on the show two or three times.

But I've never met you.

Well very nice to meet he speaks very highly of you so.

So usually when Jonah is on with Lisa we're talking television because they are mostly making

television stuff today I only want to talk about big screen movie stuff

and will be just stuff that's on giant screens,

stories that tell themselves in two hours

or a little bit more than two hours.

It's a while since I had two hours but absolutely. But yes. But also

like you know stories that are like a one-time journey where it's not about sort of coming

back for next week. Absolutely no very different different shape to things. And so I want to get into that, I want to get into your history with cinemas or how you think about movies. Your work as a screenwriter who is going to be directing your own movies. Then we'll look at some scenes from

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