Christopher Nolan is detailing how technology could potentially hurt his own personal screenwriting process.The “Oppenheimer” writer-director revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he does not carry a smartphone, and while writing, uses a computer that is not connected to the internet.“My kids would probably say I’m a complete Luddite,” Nolan said.
“I would actually resist that description.
I think technology and what it can provide is amazing.
My personal choice is about how involved I get.”Nolan continued, “It’s about the level of distraction.
If I’m generating my material and writing my own scripts, being on a smartphone all day wouldn’t be very useful for me.”Nolan penned “Oppenheimer” in first-person, a tactic he had “never done before” during his career.“I don’t know if anyone’s ever done it before,” Nolan said earlier this year in an Empire magazine interview.
“But the point of it is,…
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