Nolan Approaches Each Film as His Last, Eyes Ambitious 'Odyssey' Project

At the height of a career that has reshaped what popular cinema can ask of its audience, Christopher Nolan has revealed the quiet principle beneath his restless ambition: he makes each film as though it will be his last. This philosophy, neither performance nor pretense, has driven him from the architecture of dreams in 'Inception' to the moral weight of 'Oppenheimer' — and now carries him toward the oldest story in the Western tradition, an adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey.' In choosing to wrestle with a foundational text that has outlasted every medium it has touched, Nolan is not retreati