
Sorkin,’ clearly having mistaken me for Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter of The Social Network.

“If I’m to be completely honest, what the young man actually said was, ‘You make the world a better place, Mr. It can combine the subjective experience of another human being the way a novel can, but it can combine that at the same time with the empathetic experience being in a theater and feeling what the rest of the audience is feeling.”Īnother thought occurred to him. Does make the world a better place? It’s an absolute good because we all work in what is the greatest art form ever created the one that combines pictorial beauty, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, sound, music, and language.

We are all engaged in a process that in some small way can make the world a better place. But tonight was about an award as Nolan and producing partner and wife Emma Thomas received the NATO Spirit of the Industry Award.Īfter the laughter died down, Nolan got serious: “Then I started to reflect on all of us who work in movies from the studios, distributors, executives, theater owners, marketers, the people serving popcorn.

The event wrapped up CinemaCon’s four-day run in Las Vegas, and it marked Nolan’s second showing of the week after he and Uni debuted Oppenheimer footage yesterday during the studio’s session. The joke got lots of laughs from the crowd of theater owners and industry insiders during the starry Coca-Cola Company-sponsored ceremony that served to close out the official convention of National Association of Theatre Owners.
