http://www.collider.com/2010/03/25/director-christopher-nolan-and-producer-emma-thomas-interview-inception-they-talk-3d-what-kind-of-cameras-they-used-pre-viz-wb-and-a-lot-more/

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Question: I speak for everyone when I say thank you for showing footage today.

Chris Nolan: Oh, thank you for coming and watch it.

Emma Thomas: We think it was time.

Nolan: Time to show something, yeah.

Could you actually talk a little bit about the fact that you have kept the film under such a very mysterious cloak, but yet you do have to talk about it and promote it because the cost of making a movie?

Nolan: Yeah, absolutely. I was saying it in there but I really believe that for me the most gratifying cinematic experiences as a viewer have always been films that I didn’t know what to expect. Right from when I first saw “Star Wars” when I was a kid in 1977. My uncle had told me to go see it. He said you’d probably get a kick out of it. But I didn’t really know anything about it. And I can remember looking at the poster and looking at the characters and not knowing anything specific about it. And then it just took me on this incredible journey. And I think that films like “Avatar”, when you sit down you don’t really quite know what to expect. I think that’s the most exciting form of movie making. It provides a huge challenge from a marketing point of view because you have to give people enough. You’ve got to give them a reason to go see the film. So we’re really trying to strike a balance between, not sort of shrouding the thing in secrecy or anything like that. It’s really just a question of the best explanation of what the inception is watching the film and completely get it and I think hopefully really enjoy it. Talking about it is a little tricky.

Did you have a long conversation with your actors, especially Leonardo, about the concept of the movie which is quite surprising? I mean for you guys to be on the same page as far as dreams and what can…

Nolan: Oh yeah, definitely. Leo primarily because he was the first to come on board. And he’s an actor who’s absolutely relentless in his demands for authenticity of the character. The truthfulness of what he talks about the underlying truths of the character-emotional truths. The journey that character is on, and so we spent months talking about the script and re-writing the script. I spent a long time re-writing the script to make sure that the emotional journey of his character was the…that’s the driving force of the movie. That’s the journey the audience is on and he, as a great actor and a great movie star with his charisma and his emotional openness to the audience, he carries the audience through on that journey.

Nolan: “Well, um, we’re producing the film. David Goyer had a terrific take on the story. I’ve been working on the story with David. He’s gonna go off and write it — we’ll see where it goes.”

MTV Guy: “You’ve said in the past with the Justice League, ugh, you’ve got nothing to do with it. Does this make it a little bit more realistic, err?”

Nolan: “Ahh. I can’t really talk about other…other things.”

I can’t watch it in the UK.

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