Middle Age Hollywood

During a new interview, "Inception" Cinematographer Wally Pister talks about shooting Inception, and he says Nolan like Michael Bay films.


Cinematical: What is it that you and Chris Nolan sort of locked into when you were doing Memento that has resulted in this ongoing really fertile creative collaboration?

Pfister: It's a little bit of everything. I mean, our personalities work very well. A lot of people don't realize what a great sense of humor Chris has because he seems so dry, and he seems so serious, and people are intimidated by him. But I get him. Not a week goes by on the movie set where I don't get him to laugh so hard he spits his tea out of his nose. I swear to God, I can do it once a week, and we have a good time. We really do enjoy each others' company. Beyond that, I think what happened in Memento that continues and has only grown is this sort of mutual taste. We have the same taste. We like the same kind of music. When I find something that's very obscure, a bit of music or something, I send it to him, and I kind of know if he's going to like it, and that's just on the personal side. But there are the movies out there that he loves and I hate. I'm not a big Michael Bay fan. Chris loves Michael Bay's movies. And so I'm always like come on, dude! But he sees something in it, and I don't see it.