DOWNEY However you’re not a jinx man.
NOLAN No, I’m! I’m very superstitious. I imply, I’m nowhere close to as superstitious as you’re. However I respect the jinx enormously.
What wouldn’t it imply to you when you gained the Oscar?
NOLAN I grew up watching the Oscars. I’ve at all times liked Hollywood, Hollywood motion pictures, studio movies, all of that. So, yeah, it will be a dream come true.
DOWNEY Issues are so bizarre now in comparison with the best way it was 30 years in the past, once I was doing my first little mini spherical for “Chaplin” [1992, which earned him a best-actor nod]. I bear in mind considering there was numerous free time in my schedule. Nobody on my staff was imagining that I ought to expend an excessive amount of vitality as a result of the award was form of within the bag for [Al Pacino in “Scent of a Woman”]. However to me, I simply thought, this can be a fairly gentle schedule making a run at finest actor.
What’s it prefer to be the favourite this time, when perhaps, such as you stated with Pacino, you haven’t at all times been?
DOWNEY It’s onerous to say something that doesn’t make you form of sound like a [jerk]. Right here’s what I do wish to say. I feel we’d agree normally that one thing occurred this yr that has re-established a variety of filmed leisure genres being accepted and re-embraced. Possibly not as many as we have been used to, however definitely sufficient to maintain the store open.
Do you get pleasure from awards season, or is it extra simply one thing to get via?
NOLAN [Long pause] It’s a wierd course of. It’s not terribly pure to me. I get pleasure from making movies greater than I do selling them, like numerous filmmakers, I feel. However on the similar time, it’s actually fantastic when folks reply to the films. You make the movie for an viewers, we put it in theaters for an viewers, and awards season is without doubt one of the methods through which you’re instructed that you just’ve related with folks.
DOWNEY I really like this season! Since you always remember your third time.