Christopher Nolan says he uses a burner phone because he was inspired by The Wire

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These are all utilities that Christopher Nolan has no access to on his phone. Why? He doesn’t use a smartphone.

In an interview on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert sat down with the Oppenheimer director to clarify some of the mystique surrounding the filmmaker’s persona and directorial policies. Colbert asked Nolan about his phone and email usage during a rapid-fire barrage of questions.

“I don’t have an email address. I’ve never used email,” Nolan said. “And I don’t have a smartphone. I will carry a pay-as-you-go dumb phone thing.”

“So you have a burner phone,” Colbet joked. “Are you working with the cartels?”

“I was inspired by The Wire, definitely,” the filmmaker responded.

Colbert also asked Nolan why cell phones and UGGs are banned from his sets. “I don’t allow cell phones on set — I try to minimize distractions on set,” Nolan responded. “And UGGs are distracting?” Colbert asked. “Well, they can be for the other actors, yes,” the director replied.

Nolan explained the rationale behind his anti-UGG policy. “Even though we’re engaged in this absurd process where this wall is real but there’s lights and there’s a guy with a microphone and whatever, you’re asking the actor to focus in on the reality,” he said. “So everything you can do — like wearing the correct shoes, not changing your trousers… it’s for the cast and it’s for me. I’m in there. Y’know, I’m in there with them, trying to concentrate, trying to really see the reality of it, so anything we can do to keep that reality, kind of keep that bubble intact.”

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