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0:00Christopher Nolan had just spent a long, anxious year trying to secure distribution.
0:03He had been turned down by every distributor in town with the same variation of, this is great, we love it, we really want to work with you, but this is not for us.
0:12This film was personal to him.
0:14Memento was born into the world on the back of obsession.
0:18Failure to find expression would have been almost inconceivable to Christopher Nolan.
0:23Nolan made the movie because he had to.
0:27What happens when you make a film is you burrow into it.
0:30You dig in so deep, so you kind of can't see it anymore.
0:32You're fully immersed in it, he said.
0:35The only thing you can do is trust your initial instincts.
0:38You just have to say, this is what I'm making.
0:40This is what I'm doing.
0:41It's going to work.
0:42Just trust it.
0:44Memento would go on to earn two Oscar nominations, nearly two years to the day after that disastrous screening for distributors.
0:51Nolan's ascent since that movie has been near vertical.
0:55In the space of two decades, Christopher Nolan has gone from eking out micro-budgeted three-minute shorts to making billion-dollar blockbusters.
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