“For the record, the only things banned from [Christopher Nolan’s] sets are cell phones (not always successfully) and smoking (very successfully).
The chairs Anne was referring to are the directors chairs clustered around the video monitor, allocated on the basis of hierarchy not physical need.
“He doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working.
The controversy started when Anne Hathaway, who worked with Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, revealed during an interview with Variety that the filmmaker bans chairs from the sets of his films.