The Importance of Pace in Filmmaking

The film is called Oppenheimer. It's not called the Manhattan Project or Hiroshima. The logic of the movie is that the color sequences are Oppenheimer's experience, which is where it allows for that kind of more imaginative subjectivity about how he might have been feeling at certain points. And then the black and white stuff is objective and enables you to just see characters talking without Oppenheimer being there. I don't know anyone, apart from Nolan, who has such mastery of tempo in film. So what's sort of extraordinary accomplishment really is that you take a three half film, which is basically men talking in boardroom. You're like, it feels propulsive and it feels

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