Christopher Nolan on "Following" - Conversations Inside The Criterion Collection 

I dunno about anyone else here, but this is one of the most inspiring films to an aspiring filmmaker/filmmaker starting out.

Mr. Nolan changed how I view film. My all time favorite director.

I feel like he would be a brilliant therapist, just listening to his calm voice explain his directing really mellowed me out

17:31 Nolan talks about Sound and how important it is 23:31 I need to learn this. I gotta stop thinking about imaginary future projects when i haven't even thought about how I'm realistically going to make my first feature film.

Incredibly interesting.

My personal favorite director! The prestige is my favorite movie of all time

Memento is a masterpeice

Following is, no joke, one of his best films.

Fantastic! It's great to hear such a widely renowned director talking about how he covers things up with editing. Such an honest interview. He doesn't seem pretentious at all.

Nolan is not the greatest director of all time, but his film record is speaks for itself. The man has never made a bad film, in fact I would argue that all his films are worth seeing given how short life is.

really love his style and thinking.

Its always a treat to hear an individual, who is so highly regarded for the art he produces, to speak about the details of his craft. Thank you for this.

i feel smarter just listening to him talk

I've found a copy of this film and watched it. Very well done. And was also surprised this was his first feature film before Memento which I also loved. Add to the fact Nolan never went to film school? Wow. Perhaps after Interstellar which I have yet to see he might go back to the small film format just to get a breather from the big blockbusters before making another one. But who knows. Nolan clearly knows what films he wants to film and what stories to tell. More power to him.

Amazing director. All his movies have been great so far and I'm sure Interstellar won't disappoint.

I'm 45. I was once fascinated enough by a guitar, that I practiced playing it for 2 or 3 months. Once I tried to learn Spanish, that lasted 2 or 3 months. Dido for painting and gardening. It absolutely blows my mind how people can get obsessed with something like film making (or art, or music, or programming) and it literally lasts their entire lives. Very fascinating breakdown of Christopher Nolan ❤

Following is THE movie that aspiring filmmakers should watch on repeat.

Wow he's never been to film school? That's crazy.

Such an amazing person. You can see how he understand and knows everything about every aspect of what he does. So brilliant and pleasant and polite and humble. Chris Nolan is the best director in the world. Climbed his way from a low budget film to enormous films.

Such a brilliant, humble man. He doesn't look down on budget filmmakers, but truly just appreciates a story well told. That's what it's all about. I bet if you gave a lot of people twice the budget of what he spent on this film, they wouldn't come out with a product half as good.

dunkirk gonna be great

no other directors can do sequels lije christopher nolan, nolan did batman begins, and then did a masterful piece The Prestige, then he went back and did the dark knight, then he did inception, then went back and did TDK rises. no other director can do that, i mean even james cameron is shooting avatar back to back, nolan created one of the best trilogy and in between also produced two masterpieces of cenima the prestige and inception, he is the most versatile director right now

He is basically Albert Einstein of film making. He didn't learnt film making, filmatography embraced him be a medium to broadcast it's eloquent beauty.

Vice, this was a fantastic video/conversation. You've done tremendous work this time, I hope to see more of these director videos in future.

Felt like I just had a film class after viewing this interview learned so much

A cunning man, got to give him credit for that. Not really a director, more like... a *magician*. _"The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"._

my favourite modern day director. also the way he talks about actually being present behind the lens of what he's filming a good film for me any how normally involves a psychological element of feeling like you're prying into someones life from a real medium like a camera and not just having very well set up shots that just explains the story ore cinematic objective. almost like a ghost was secretly watching them and that they carry on with there life oblivious to the camera not acting up to it just being in front of it as there life unfolds and i think someone who has the understanding from the simple end of the spectrum can then use more common ore professional camera techniques to emphasise certain parts of a film without it feeling like you're just watching a movie if you get my drift not a story made into a film but a story that happens to be filmed as if it would happen with ore without a medium to portray it i.e film.

15:53 The clock he sets on the table in "Following" is the same clock that is burned in "Memento". Also, notice that Cobb, one of the characters from "Following" shares the same name and similar characteristics (criminal, manipulative) as DiCaprio's character in "Inception".

Holy shit, thank you VICE for this. We need more of these one to ones with directors. Was absolutely gutted that Robert Rodriguez's El Rey network isn't making the video interviews with Guillermo Del Toro, John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino, available in any form. Fortunately my other idol Chris Nolan decided to talk to VICE :)

"Cutting in your head while you shoot" This is fascinating, thanks!

Now this is the vice we know and love, this was great. Thank you.

One of the best directors I have ever know

I believe Memento is his greatest achievement. Can't wait for Interstellar!

I love interviews like this where they edit out the interviewers questions and allow the interviewee to really expand. Allows you to hear their authentic views in a relaxed way rather than being driven by an interviewers scripted narrative.

This was very inspiring. Really hope vice does this with other directors

He's a living legend.

Might just be the greatest director of all time.

Very informative. Working on anything creative with this guy must be incredible joy and immensely frustrating. Sign me up.

HOLY COW!!! Nolan gave Clerks a mention. I hope kevin Smith hears this

I could listen him all day talking about film making. Greatest director of modern cinema.

Amazing hearing him talk about how he started.

Just saw following today! I really liked it! Christopher definitely develops his narrative and technical skills on this movie and it's truly inspiring for those who want to make a microbudget feature.

That was a really interesting interview, thank you!

So many great insights here. A director who has become one of the most successful and acclaimed of our age shedding light on his humble beginnings. Nolanites FTW!

If you ask me, then the best directors we've seen, have never gone to filmschool: Nolan, Tarantino, James Cameron, George Miller, Stanley Kubrick there are far more, but this is just a few names. In fact many of those who did actually go to filmschool ended up dropping out of filmschool again. I think there seems to be a profound explanation that filmschools are too stricks and therefore eliminating the directors creative minds, while also not challeging them enough. I've seen 100 of horendous short films from filmschool students here in Denmark where I live and the worst thing about them is that they all look the same! Social realism dramas with no edge or desire to wauw the audience or be different, to stand out from the crowd. It's no wonder Denmark haven't produced a great director since Nicolas Winding Refn, who by the way, also never went to filmschool, he was enlisted at the Danish filmschool, but decided to try making a movie (Pusher) on his own. I don't know, but for some places, filmschool might be a disadvantage more than an advantage. At least my favorite directors didn't go to filmschool, so that's what I'll take from it - Learning by doing and don't watch never danish movies, cause they'll will bring your creativeness down as opposed to older ones who had stories to tell and desire to entertain. How's filmschool in the countries where the rest of you guys who watches and comments on this video lives??

He is one of the greatest filmakers...unquestionably. ..

This is excellent and insightful. Thank you.

I love the fact that he seems like he could talk about anything forever...

THIS GUY IS A LEGEND

I love hearing directors talk about movie making especially one that loves movies as much as Christopher Nolan

This was awesome. Please do more stuff like this.

this is one of the most valuable videos I have ever watched.

thank you VICE for this beautiful learning experience

all his movies are so freakin good!!

I love "Following" I found a copy on VHS in a secondhand store, years ago. It's up there with Mike Leigh's "Naked" as simple, brutal, elegant films. It comes together in pieces, a foreshadowing of "Memento" years later.

Following is such a great movie, 95% of people dont even now this is his first movie

Very informative..outlays the whole journey..that we all face..

Love every single movie he puts out!!! YES, even "The Dark Knight Rises", man why do people have to hate on that movie soo much. Saying it's a horrible film when they haven't even seen other comic book movies such as "Daredevil", "Catwoman", or must I say it "Steel".

Thank you vice for this interview.

amazing interview

Great video, great guy and great series - thank you Vice

In cinematography, looking into the viewfinder, adjusting the diopter and such is exactly like drawing in the way a cinematographer sees light and 3D space, formalizes it and makes a stylistic decision on composition and value (exposure).

Brilliant interview

I saw this film, "Following" around 2001 I think it was. It blew me away...

He‘s such a nice man. Very humble and passionate about the artform.

He's such a creative and qualified director, personally one of my favourite. And damn, his voice, I'd listen to him for hours.

As someone writing the script to my own no-budget film, this was really helpful.

Excellent video!

Not my favorite director but he is a filmmaker that really makes you think that Cinema is still as powerful as ever there are other as well but the list is long PTA, Tarantino, Scorsese, Xavier Dolan, Michael Haneke, Linklater, Jonathan Glazer, Steve McQueen i could go on with others.

Great practical filmmaking advice from a master

Respect to you sir!

excellent video!

Describing interstellar the movie in one word: brilliant!

Great more stuff like this!!

It’s actually a really engaging film despite it’s low budget quality. Extremely rare among low budget indie films

I love this interview

Great and very insightful! O.K.: what I thought: C. Nolan used a 16mm wind up Bolex for a lot of outdoor location shots. On IMDB it just states: Arriflex 16 BL - fantastic camera to this day, seen it in action for TV news gathering back in the day. That model is already a bit large and heavy for some of the scenes, not to mention still very expensive to buy or rent in top working condition (back in the late 1990s it still was prohibitively expensive), even though it's a (professional) model from 1968. Great insight about editing, lens choice, camera movement and the general approach to (budget) film making. I'm very happy that Nolan always supported and continues to support real film, but with common sense - not shying away from editing on video after telecine transfer. Not that I think film is always "better" than modern digital cinema (or DSLR) for cinematic story telling. I just happen to prefer it, but I fully respect people who prefer digital. I simply think people should have a choice - film and digital video are still very different in look, feel and approach. Thanks for uploading! Always loved Nolan's work - after this great video I have it 100% confirmed that Nolan is a true master film maker who earned it by building his career from the ground up.

he's a big guy, for you. Bravo Nolan. With that out of the way Following is probably one of my top twenty favorite movies

I just find it funny that this interview is almost half the movie's length

Look at Nolan man, so inspirational.

I love the criterion collection!

First line "I'm a self taught filmmaker, i nevet went to film school". Says it all basically, all these people trying to get into a film school to gain skills, being self taught is the best way. I've never been to film school, i just have a regular warehouse job and i use the money i have left to buy certain camera, lighting and audio equipment, and make short films in my spare time.

GIVE ME INTERSTELLAR ALL-FREAKEDUP-READY!

Almost all of my favorite directors have made amazing directorial debuts (Bottle Rocket, Shaun of the Dead, Take the Money and Run, Monty Python and the Holy Grail) except Kubrick strangely enough

This was really cool.

Vice making a valuable and interesting video? Wow

This man is genius. Thans for the upload.

Bless us all in our filmmaking journey!

1:31 Messin with our minds since 1997

3:25 first time to see him smile

Highly articulate guy.

thanks a lot, interesting 👍

i have seen plenty of movies, different directors, Kubrick, Nolan, Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Lucas, Copolla, Tarantino, Coen, Scorsese but i have to say that this is the best film that i have ever seen. its a piece of art.

I'm undergone a cinematic therapy treatment for my cinematic --illness !!! through this session!!!

Let's have one of these for Michael Bay. Reporter: "So Mr. Bay, how did you get into making movies?" Michael Bay: "A** and dynamite." the end

We here!!!

He’s by far my favorite director of all times.

My favourite director of all time !!!

Nolan makes really good films. He would make great films if the scripts had another pass before production began, because too often the plot becomes Swiss cheese once you start examining the finer details. But oh well you get what you want out of his films and his approach to special effects is one of the best today.

Hard work and guts.