“I’ve loved the Bond films since I was a kid. For me, they’re always about the expansiveness of cinema. The first Bond films set up infinite possibilities about the world they create. I’d love to do a Bond film.”

"It was an absolutely electric screening and felt very, very significant," Nolan says. "John David's performance and the way he carried that film, the way he centred that film, I was in the middle of writing the script at that point and ... it was very difficult for me to get him out of my head after that screening."

That ride takes the Protagonist (John David Washington) and the audience all around the world. It gives Tenet a true sense of escapism and this was something influenced by one of his favourite James Bond movies, The Spy Who Loved Me. "I try not to watch it too often, but when I watched it recently and showed it to my kids, you can tap back into those early experiences. I think I was about seven years old when I saw it, I went with my dad to the cinema to see it," he recalled.

Have you seen "The Offence"? You gotta see "The Offence". Another one with Sean Connery, it is from this time period. It is incredible.

It's a great favorite of mine, but I can never find it anywhere.

The sense of your life passing you by and your kids growing up before your eyes. Very much what I felt watching Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, an extraordinary film, which is weirdly doing the same thing in a completely different way.