Eh, you can call it personal if you want, but a film about themes that most people understand and can relate to seems less personal to me. But, whatever.
Just because a lot of people can relate to themes doesn't make them any less personal to him, hence why he decided to explore them in his films.
I don't understand this sentence at all. All of his films have a strange crime-thriller feel to them, even when that's not what they're about. The Prestige is the closest he's come to moving away from what he does. But it has the exact same tone and pacing and look as his other films. There are senes in his films that look like they could be interchanged with scenes from his other films and people would hardly notice. It's all blue-toned and persistent musical score and dead serious acting. Crap, I bet I could count the number of jokes in his films without taking off my shoes.
Well at least I don't have to convince you about Nolan's authorship
You are talking about Nolan being distinctive, which I don't think suggests a comfort one.
Following can be construed as a neo noir for the most the most part, that's true, but I also consider it more or less a drama until the conclusion. Anywaysi, that's a meaningless argument to get into because I ingthink it's pretty obvious that Nolan is versatile. He has recurring themes and a consistent photography and straight acting, but I consider genre changing versatile soo...
Nolan is bed and green colour blind hence why his and Pfister photography often have that bluish cold tint to it.
You really really really want to just see him do something wacky, don't you? I can't see that happening. I am in saying Nolan will NEVER do a straight forward comedy. He himself said that himself humour is very different to most people in that it's dark and he even says he finds his own films funny, which I agree with. With the exception of
Insomnia and
Batman Begins, Nolan's films do have their moments of dark humour. Just he is smart enough to be sly with them so as to not disrupt to flow of them.
Wait, he's remaking The Aviator?
Now I know you are just taking piss a little bit sex bomb but I think it's worth mentioning that Nolan had written his version of a Howard Hughes film years before
The Aviator had even been greenlit. He called it 'the best thing I have ever written'