Christopher Nolan does not use modern technology, like email or smartphones. According to a interview with the British director behind, his latest theatrical release, it's about avoiding distractions that come with having advanced devices. «I think technology and what it can provide is amazing.
My personal choice is about how involved I get,» Nolan says in an interview with the trade publication. «It’s about the level of distraction.
If I’m generating my material and writing my own scripts, being on a smartphone all day wouldn’t be very useful for me.» And because he doesn't use email, that means he has a different method of getting copies of his scripts to his cast members: hand delivering them. «People will say, 'Why do you work in secrecy?' Well, it’s not secrecy, it’s privacy,» Nolan says, explaining that not sending his scripts electronically is not about trying to be covert. «It’s being able to try things, to make mistakes, to be as adventurous as possible.»In fact, it's how the ensemble cast of initially received a copy of Nolan's latest work, which is a historical drama about the Godfather of the atomic bomb starring Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J.
Robert Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt as his wife and botanist Katherine «Kitty» Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as director of the Manhattan Project Leslie Groves and Robert Downey Jr.
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