My most enjoyable movie-going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there, and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don’t know everything about, and you don’t know every plot turn and every character movement that’s going to happen. I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that’s what we’re trying to do for the audience.

Exactly how I felt during Inception, especially due to the fact that I was at a midnight screening. Nobody there knew what was coming, and thus the idea that movies are shared, discovered experiences was that much more palpable. At the end of the movie, the atmosphere was just electric.

Well, that may have been because everyone there was a huge nerd like me.

I think really, for me, the primary interest in dreams and in making this film is this notion that in your mind, while you’re asleep, you can create an entire world that you’re also experiencing without realizing that you’re doing that. I think that says a lot about the potential of the human mind, especially the creative potential. It’s something I find fascinating.

Thank god I’m not the only one who became obsessed with this after I saw the movie. It hit me when Cobb drew the diagram of the experience being “right in between creation and perception” (or something like that). Never before had I considered the fact that dreams, these unreal worlds which are filled with very real dialogue and detail, are being experienced at the exact same time as they are created. Isn’t that just nuts?

Anyway, I find Nolan and his work absolutely fascinating. After seeing Inception and Memento (very similar works, by the way), his Batman films seem so…tame. They lack the bold, important statements made about reality and experience one finds in the aforementioned films. They simply come off as really, really, really good action movies. Hope that doesn’t ruin Batman 3 for me.