The architect of temporal puzzles and masculine obsession. His films collapse time into labyrinths where men chase ghosts of themselves — each frame a mechanism, each cut a secret door. Cinema as intellectual machinery, ruthless and seductive.
Nolan re-watched F.W. Murnau's 'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans' to understand how to 'strip the dialogue out of the script for long stretches of time' and tell the story purely through a 'visual language of suspense.'