TEN SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER NOLAN!

Christopher Nolan's latest sci-fi epic, Interstellar, is set to make its theatrical debut this month and is already generating mostly positive responses from those who have seen it at pre-viewings. However, the director rose to the limelight nearly ten years ago when he rebooted the Batman film franchise with Batman Begins. Spawning $2 billion-grossing follow-ups in 2008 and 2012, the Dark Knight trilogy became not just a watershed moment for the comic book genre, but also movie fans in general. He is currently referred to as a filmmaking mastermind, who presents intricate stories that keeps the audience on their toes (such as in the Leonardo DiCaprio starrer Inception). Here are ten surprising facts about Christopher Nolan:
1. He "claims not to have an email address," so his assistant prints out important emails for him to read.
2. He's always on time.
3. He never works weekends.
4. He wears the same exact thing every day. In Nolan's case: a "dark, narrow-lapeled jacket over a blue dress shirt with a lightly fraying collar, plus durable black trousers over scuffed, sensible shoes. In colder weather, Nolan outfits himself with a fitted herringbone waistcoat, the bottom button left open. A pair of woven periwinkle cuff links and rather garish striped socks represents his only concessions to whimsy or sentimentality..."
5. He's addicted to hot tea, so much so that he always carries a flask of it around with him in his pocket and his teeth are stained "a chestnut gradient". Michael Caine (who plays Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's butler in The Dark Knight trilogy) asked him if he puts vodka in it, but Nolan allegedly said no.
6. Before he makes a movie, he spends up to two weeks typing the original idea out for the film on his father's old typewriter.
7. He tries to film as many of his special effects in-camera as possible (rather than editing them in after), to the extent that his postproduction coordinator told The Times Magazine that he worked on romantic comedies with more after effects than there were in The Dark Knight Rises.
8. By the same token, he builds humungous model sets in old aircraft hangars that are so immersive, one Warner Bros. executive actually got lost in the fake rain falling on the Gotham set that was built for one of The Dark Knight movies.
9. He's a fierce advocate for analog 35-millimeter film over digital, so much so that he came to New York City to visit theaters to make sure they were correctly outfitted to be able to project Interstellar.
10. He also shot even the Skype-like video transmissions that appear within Interstellar on 35-mm film.

Source: The Internet