He does things like he doesn’t like having chairs on set for actors or bottles of water, he’s very particular.
The flames on the water and men swimming in them; he really wants to minimize the amount of post-production and CGI stuff.
They’re distractions — the noise of [the bottles], they’re like toys almost, playing around with toys.
A couple new Nolan quirks recently came to light after the release of Dunkirk, and boy, do they make being on this guy’s set sound like a whole lot of fun.