Christopher Nolan reportedly “grimaces” when told Matt Damon‘s viral quote about making The Odyssey and what it meant for cinema’s future.
The Oscar-winning director was being interviewed about his mythological epic, which is open this week, when The Telegraph asked about a recent comment by his film’s leading man.
Damon had said he had a nostalgic feeling while making the epic feature “because it felt like the movies when I started working — and I know that that’s going away.” The actor added, “I knew that this was the last chance I was going to have to do something like this” and “I don’t think people are going to be given the resources to shoot movies that way for much longer.”
But Nolan — who is also currently serving as the president of the Directors Guild of America — had a different take.
“I think I know what [Damon] was driving at, because it does seem like a long time since somebody made a film like this in this type of way, where you travel the world, get together a cast of thousands and so on,” Nolan said. “But there’s a defeatist aspect of viewing it that way that I don’t agree with. I think cinema is vital and essential and continues to transform itself — we’ve got all these great new young voices in movies, making the medium their own and moving it forward.”
