"It was something that stuck with me, and it was something I applied very much to films like Interstellar,"
"It showed us the dramatic possibilities, that looking at the universe from a scientific perspective could be very, very engaging."
"It's a brilliant movie,"
Physicists interviewed during the centenary of quantum mechanics repeatedly named Interstellar (2014) and The Prestige (2006) as favourite science-fiction films for their depictions of science. Christopher Nolan directed and co-wrote both films and later won an Academy Award for Oppenheimer (2023). Nolan credits childhood exposure to Star Wars and Carl Sagan's Cosmos for inspiring an interest in physics and applied that influence to Interstellar, saying it revealed dramatic possibilities and made scientific perspectives engaging. Nolan declined to be interviewed and is filming The Odyssey, slated for 17 July 2026. The Prestige portrays rival magicians, a Tesla-built teleportation device, and identity sacrifice.
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