The Inspiration
in particular powerful for him was come home to see that his door had been smashed in . “ I realized that the door was just plyboard , and that was never maintain anybody out , ” he said . “ What was keeping people out was the societal protocol that we have that allow us to populate together . I was interested in the certain type of people who would stop observing those protocol , and why that would be . ”
Writing and Filming
Though the plastic film was always intended to have a non - elongate structure , Nolan wrote the book in chronological order first , then go back and rearranged it—“on the page , not in the edit suite , ” he say — which learn him a worthful deterrent example . “ What I found was that there was so much rewriting involve to attempt to make a comprehensive and flow narrative that when it come time to writeMemento , I did the contrary , and I never look at it reordered in any way of life , ” he say .
Nolan wanted a non - linear structure for the film in part because it would meet the sporadic shooting schedule . “ We ’d inject one day a week and we keep that up for most of a year , sometimes skipping a weekend or whatever , ” he said . “ It was unfeignedly a no - budget effort , and I ’d pen the script to accommodate that . The non - linear chronology assist us keep persistence in an organic way . ”
He and his friends film in their own apartment and in friends ’ restaurants , and grabbed many stroke on the fly front . OnlyLucy Russell , who plays the blond , would go on to have a life history in act .
Independent Filmmaking versus Studio Films
know what he now knows , he said , “ I would never endeavor to do something like that . It was mad , really . But that ’s the pleasure of when you ’re first starting out — you do n’t eff the restrictions you ’re commit on your histrion and they just rose to it and gave these great carrying into action . ”
Whether or not Nolan run rehearsal these days , he said , look on the worker . “ It ’s is a peculiar proposition , because you may get maybe a few solar day , peradventure a couple of weeks , ” he said . “ There are theatre director who massively value that , and I went into that physical process valuing that . But for me it ’s about what the histrion want and need . Quite often , large scale films adapt [ rehearsal ] on the day . ”
But there ’s one thing that has n’t changed : The employment he does as a screenwriter and director . “ It ’s exactly the same , ” he said . “ And that ’s what I ’ve always loved about filmmaking . Your business as the manager is to really have blinders and not be aware of the artifice — where the crew is , where the hand truck are , and that sort of affair . Your job , really , is to endeavor to be the audience on set . So I found that unconscious process of trying to devise a stroke , trying to understand how it ’s going to make you feel as an interview appendage , and how it ’s going to fit into the story , to be exactly the same process [ just on a self-aggrandizing ordered series ] . So however much things deepen , it ’s the same unconscious process , and that ’s the process you valuate . That ’s what you sleep together . ”
