Inception (2010) Poster    If you take the first letters of the
main characters' names - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and
Saito - they spell "Dreams". If you add Peter, Ariadne and
Yusuf, the whole makes "Dreams Pay", which is what they do for a
mind thief. In an interview with 'Entertainment Weekly',
Christopher Nolan explained that he based roles of the Inception
team similar to roles that are used in filmmaking - Cobb is the
director, Arthur is the producer, Ariadne is the production
designer, Eames is the actor, Saito is the studio, and Fischer
is the audience. "In trying to write a team-based creative
process, I wrote the one I know," said Nolan. Christopher Nolan
first pitched the film to Warner Bros. after the completion of
his third feature, Insomnia (2002), and was met with approval
from the studio. However, it was not yet written at the time,
and Nolan determined that rather than writing it as an
assignment, it would be more suitable to his working style if he
wrote it as a spec script and then p