Christopher Nolan's next mission after 'Interstellar'? Probably not a comedy

Director Christopher Nolan conquered mind-bendy mysteries with Memento and Inception, comic-book movies with his Batman films, and with more than $52 million after its first weekend, Interstellar his talent for science fiction is connecting with folks, too.

Any other genres you want to take down, Chris? "There's a bunch but I'm not going to tell you what they are," Nolan tells Paste BN with a hearty, knowing chuckle. "I don’t want to raise any expectations." (SUCH A TEASE.)

There are a couple kinds of movies, however, that he says he wouldn't go near:
"I would try anything I think except comedy or romantic comedy. Those are very tough genres to work in. They rely on an unanimity of audience response. You screen a comedy for people, and if they don’t laugh, you’ve got to figure out a way to make them laugh. There's no hiding behind the art of the film. There’s 'Oh, you don’t get it.' "
A lot of his movies Nolan actually regards as funny — Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight certainly was comic in certain dark aspects. But, he admits, "people don’t necessarily agree."
"To actually go out there like (The Hangover director) Todd Phillips or somebody does and make something that an audience has to laugh at it is incredibly underrated as a skill and a really (expletive) difficult thing to pull off. I’d be terrified about doing that."
Well, we'd rather see him do a Western anyway — he doesn't exactly say no to that, yet that's a pretty tough genre, too. "The superhero genre has supplanted that to a degree in our modern iconography, but then again, everything comes around again."