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Aaron Eckhart Explains What People Mean When They Say Christopher Nolan Directs ‘Indie Studio Movies’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Anybody that loves movies
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  Speaker 1: knows films typically come in two forms, their studio movies
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  Speaker 1: and indie movies, and in many ways they couldn't be
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  Speaker 1: more different. Studio movies often popcorn flicks, big stars, big budgets,
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  Speaker 1: universal stories. Indie flicks are often made on skin tight
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  Speaker 1: budgets with lesser known actors and push boundaries. But director
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan defies that. Many of the actors who worked
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  Speaker 1: with him says his huge studio movies like Dark Knight
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  Speaker 1: or Tennant feel like an indie movie on set despite
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  Speaker 1: the big budget, and Aaron Eckhart, who famously played two
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  Speaker 1: Face in Christopher's Batman movies, has finally explained why, telling
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  Speaker 1: the Hollywood Reporter, it's the way Chris handles his movies.
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  Speaker 1: It's not an extravagant set in terms of what's off camera.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone is expected to be on set all the time
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  Speaker 1: and involved in the movie. He goes on to say,
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  Speaker 1: I like to call the director a dictator there, either
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  Speaker 1: benevolent or malevolent, but it has to be that way.
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