5 film directors and their psychological MBTI profile
Today we are going to explore the psychological MBTI types of famous directors. I have based my research on the analysis of their works and interview quotes.
Christopher Nolan [INTJ]
“I never considered myself a lucky person. I’m the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.”
Nolan gained considerable attention for his second film Memento. That gave him the opportunity to make the big-budget Insomnia and the drama The Prestige. What followed was the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and Dunkirk. His stories are rooted in metaphysical themes and explore depths of personal identity and the nature of memory. He uses nonlinear storytelling and practical special effects.
Inception is a Jungian psychoanalyst’s wet dream as it (quite well) explores the realm of dreams and dream analysis. Dark Knight has the Joker as a symbolic representation of Chaos and Batman as the manifestation of Order. Bruce Wayne is the Ego, who tries to become the Freudian Superego, Batman, Übermensch, Superhuman. Batman Begins explores the depths of human fear and also uses Jungian archetypes. Memento is a look into a head of a cognitively impaired man, who is looking for the murderer of his wife. He has has no short term…
