UNEXPECTEDLY: Christopher Nolan Says Fellow Directors Have Called to Complain About His ‘Inaudible’ Sound.

“We got a lot of complaints,” Nolan said about the “Interstellar” sound design. “I actually got calls from other filmmakers who would say, ‘I just saw your film, and the dialogue is inaudible.’ Some people thought maybe the music’s too loud, but the truth was it was kind of the whole enchilada of how we had chosen to mix it.”

“It was a very, very radical mix,” the director continued. “I was a little shocked to realize how conservative people are when it comes to sound. Because you can make a film that looks like anything, you can shoot on your iPhone, no one’s going to complain. But if you mix the sound a certain way, or if you use certain sub-frequencies, people get up in arms.”

As this 2014 clip of Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan riffing on the unintelligibility of Batman and Bane in The Dark Knight Rises highlights, this isn’t exactly a new complaint about Nolan’s movies: