I've been buying cheap paperback Shakespeare copies and doing the plays like a table read with my wife and three oldest kids in the evening. We swap characters scene to scene.
It's one of the richest things I've done in years.
Local minima are extremely rare in high dimensional spaces, so if you ever feel stuck in a rut it’s probably just because you aren’t considering a wide enough set of orthogonal options
“On the 15th of May 1796 General Bonaparte made his entry into Milan at the head of a youthful army which had just crossed the bridge at Lodi and let the world know that after all these centuries, Caesar and Alexander had a successor.”
Stendhal
I suspect Nolan has a copy of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by his bed. His movie has a point of view. You may not like it and it may even bounce off you completely. But he made a movie true to that point of view.