Christopher Nolan talks about directing
![Christopher Nolan sat down with the Director’s Guild of America (DGA) to discuss his style, influences and reasons behind the decisions made for The Dark Knight Rises. One of Nolan’s staples is the use of flashback and time shifts as an artifact for storytelling. With a young Talia Al Ghul being cast in his most recent […]](http://darkknight.tribute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/christophernolan.jpg "Christopher Nolan talks about directing - The Dark Knight")
Christopher Nolan sat down with the Director’s Guild of America (DGA) to discuss his style, influences and reasons behind the decisions made for The Dark Knight Rises. One of Nolan’s staples is the use of flashback and time shifts as an artifact for storytelling. With a young Talia Al Ghul being cast in his most recent movie, as well as Liam Neeson’s reprisal of his role as the deceased Ra’s al Ghul, it is clear that his storytelling technique will be used once again in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises. “Well, I had a couple of big influences. When I was 16, I read a Graham Swift novel, Waterland, that did incredible things with parallel timelines, and told a story in different dimensions that was extremely coherent,” Nolan explained to the DGA. “Around the same time, I remember Alan Parker’s The Wall on television, which does a very similar thing purely with imagery, using memories and dreams crossing over to the other dreams and so forth.”
