Listen to the Interview (19:30)

Like his films, Christopher Nolan is intelligent and insightful. I spoke with him on May 5, 2002, shortly before the release of his third film, INSOMNIA, his first for a studio and his first directed from a script he himself did not write. Nolan waxed eloquent on the virtues of ambiguity, the importance of casting, and the sly way he plays on an audience's perceptions. For my question about the name of the character Al Pacino plays in INSOMNIA, you need to know that Dormer is French for "to sleep."